Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman

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May 102013
 

Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman

Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman

This documentary is about the life and work of Pauline Park. As an orphan born in Korea in a year of revolution, Pauline Park was adopted and raised in the Midwest. Park did her dissertation research in Brussels and Paris for her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She came out as an openly transgendered woman after moving to New York City in 1997.

In June 1998, Park co-founded the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA),

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Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

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May 102013
 

Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people—cross-dressers, drag queens and transsexuals—and their everyday lives.

Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Namaste begins her work by analyzing two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people—queer theory

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ABC News Nightline Transgendered Executive/Vaccine & Autism Reviews

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Jan 062013
 

ABC News Nightline Transgendered Executive/Vaccine & Autism

ABC News Nightline Transgendered Executive/Vaccine & Autism

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Just one year ago, Megan Wallent’s co-workers at Microsoft knew her as Michael. Then, in an e-mail sent to his entire staff, he announced that he no longer considered himself a male. The long-time executive, in charge of the Internet Explorer division for Microsoft, underwent major feminization surgery and legally changed his gender. Wallent’s wife, like his co-workers, had no idea that this guy’s guy was conflicted about his gender identity.

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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)

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Oct 272012
 

Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)

Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)

In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles, and linguistic pronouns. More dramatically, they ingest massive doses of female hormones and inject up to twenty liters of industrial silicone into their bodies to create breasts, wide hips, an

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