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Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality

Jay Prosser

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Transitions -- Changing Bodies, Changing NarrativesPart 1: Bodies1. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex2. A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual EmbodimentPart 2: Narratives3. Mirror Images: Transsexuality and Autobiography4. Some Primitive Thing Conceived in a Turbulent Age of Transition: The Invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the Narrative Origins of Transexuality5. No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch BluesEpilogue: Transsexuality in Photography -- Fielding the ReferentNotesIndex

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Key concepts: Transgender, Queer, Narrative, Loneliness, Transsexual, Gender studies, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory