transgender terms

[Kathe Managan]

For a discussion of how transgendered people in the US (in NYC in particular) identify themselves, I recommend 
you check out the work of David Valentine, including:

2003 "I went to bed with my own kind once": the erasure of desire in the name of identity.  Language and 
Communication 23:123-138 (special issue on language and desire). 

Best,
Kathe


Kathe Managan, Ph.D. 
Mellon Teaching Fellow
Anthropology Department
University of Michigan
jkm5967 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Sheldon <asheldon at UMN.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 0:48 am
Subject: transgender terms

> Can anyone suggest a source for a discussion of terms used for/by 
> transgender folks in the U.S.? If it is tied to different 
> perspectives 
> on how to do being a transexual - as that has changed over time in 
> the 
> U.S. -  that would be helpful too.
> 
> by 'different perspectives' I mean, for example:  "surgery is the 
> only 
> option", vs, nonsurgical options, and gender blurring and blending.
> 
> Has anyone found readings that would be useful in a Language and 
> Gender 
> course?
> 
> Amy Sheldon
> asheldon at umn.edu
>