Praying for Pieces: A Practice in Building the Trans Body
The article focuses on elements of gender transition and suggesting an antagonism between transgender and lesbian communities. It mentions violence done to femininity in order to achieve that masculinity and monstrous benediction as a particular blessing on the trans body made of violence. It also m...
| Published in: | Cross currents |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
The University of North Carolina Press
2018
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| In: |
Cross currents
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Transgender
/ Body
/ Violence
/ Femininity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Masculinity
B Medical Technology B Transsexualism B Transgender people B Violence B GENDER transition |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | The article focuses on elements of gender transition and suggesting an antagonism between transgender and lesbian communities. It mentions violence done to femininity in order to achieve that masculinity and monstrous benediction as a particular blessing on the trans body made of violence. It also mentions colonization of bodies picked apart and reshaped to advance medical technologies, violence in technologizing the body, and violence in piecing the body together. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-3881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cross currents
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/cros.12339 |