My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix : performing transgender rage / by Susan Stryker.
"The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in the shape other than that in which it was born. In these circumstances, I find a deep affinity between myself as a transsexual woman...
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Language: | English |
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[U.S.?] :
Not Yr Cister Press,
[between 2000 and 2009?]
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Physical Description: | 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in the shape other than that in which it was born. In these circumstances, I find a deep affinity between myself as a transsexual woman and the monster in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Like the monster, I am too often perceived as less than fully human due to the means of my embodiment; like the monster's as well, my exclusion from human community fuels a deep and abiding range in me that I, like the monster, direct against the conditions in which I must struggle to exist."--Page [1]. |
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Call Number: | HQ77.9 .S77 2000z |