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David Valentine: Imagining Transgender

David Valentine: Imagining Transgender

USA 2008, 303 pp., brochure, € 24.20
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This ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism shows how activists in the 1990s embraced the category. The category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. The author conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, bars, and clubs. However, he found that many of those labeled »transgender« by activists did not know the term or resisted its use. Instead, they self-identified as »gay«, a category of sexual rather than gendered identity and one rejected in turn by the activists who claimed these subjects as transgender. Valentine analyzes the reasons for and potential consequences of this difference.
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