Katherine M. Poole

Getting Past Identity: A Fresh Look at Issues in Transsexuality

Katherine M. Poole / November 6, 2008 / 3 min read

In this collection of short essays, letters, interviews and speeches, Viviane Namaste addresses what she finds to be a central problem in the current body of work on transsexuality: the framing of trans issues in terms of identity. According to Namaste, this focus has served to erase the lived experiences of transsexuals and has curtailed any substantive discussion of the social and institutional conditions through which they experience oppression.

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