Pleasure and efficacy : of pen names, cover versions, and other trans techniques / Grace E. Lavery.

"In Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie Stopes, Lavery explores...

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Main Author: Lavery, Grace E. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
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Physical Description:xxxvii, 259 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: How to brainwash yourself -- Part One. How to change sex like a pragmatist: i. Trans realism and its referents ; ii. The king's two anuses ; iii. Picaresque and pornography in The old curiosity shop ; iv. Fear of commitment: Adorno castrating Brecht -- Part Two. How to survive negation: v. On being criticized ; vi.The egg and the essay ; vii. The cannibal's diagnosis (mirror/hole) ; viii. Generic deductiveness: reasoning as mood in the stoner neo-noir -- Part Three. Epilogue: Someone else's beauty and My beauty. 
520 |a "In Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie Stopes, Lavery explores the skepticism found in such works about whether it is truly possible to change one's sex. This ambivalence, she argues, has contributed to both antitrans oppression and the civil rights claims with which trans people have confronted it. Lavery examines what she terms "trans pragmatism"-the ways that trans people resist medicalization and pathologization to achieve pleasure and freedom. Trans pragmatism, she writes, affirms that transition works, that it is possible, and that it happens. With Eliot and Freud as the guiding geniuses of the book, Lavery covers a vast range of modern culture-poetry, prose, criticism, philosophy, fiction, cinema, pop music, pornography, and memes. Since transition takes people out of one genre and deposits them in another, she suggests, it should be no surprise that a cultural history of gender transition will also provide, by accident, a history of genre transition. Considering the concept of technique and its associations with feminine craftiness, as opposed to masculine freedom, Lavery argues that techniques of giving and receiving pleasure are essential to the possibility of trans feminist thriving-even as they are suppressed by patriarchal and antitrans feminist philosophies. Contesting claims for the impossibility of transition, she offers a counterhistory of tricks and techniques, passed on by women to women, that comprises a body of knowledge written in the margins of history."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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