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Sex in transition :

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Sex in transition :

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remaking gender and race in South Africa /

Amanda Lock Swarr.

Albany, NY :

State University of New York Press,

2012.

1 online resource (304 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Changing definitions and "fantasized objects" -- Bureaucratic boundaries and forced liminality -- The postcolony and transnational connections -- Becoming a subject through confronting death -- Stealth and reality -- Inferences : "visions of the freedom not yet come" -- Stabane, raced intersexuality, and same-sex relationships in Soweto -- Contextualizing and racing intersexuality -- Stabane in Soweto -- Stabane and sexual interactions -- Interpretations of Stabane in varied contexts -- Implications of Stabane -- Why this matters -- Moffies, artists, and queens : race and the production of gay male drag in South Africa's transition -- Conceptual frameworks of drag -- Racing south african drag -- Urban whiteness and drag -- Femininity and township drag -- "Performing" in south africa : extending performitivity with kinky politics -- Conclusion: "extra-transsexual" meanings and transgender politics -- Simone Heradien : September 15, 2007 -- Histories through transitions.

Introduction: transition matters -- Transdisciplinary situations -- Historicizing gendered and political transition -- Simone Heradien : July 24, 1997 -- Toward sex in transition -- Prescribing gender and enforcing sex -- Foundations of "transsexual" -- Prescribing gender : South African medical conceptions of transsexuality -- Enforcing sex : transsexuals and South African law -- Politics and medical technology in transition -- Transsexuals' categorical existence -- Movements forward -- Medical experimentation and the raced incongruence of gender -- Medicine in apartheid and transitional South Africa -- "Lots of things can go wrong" : medical experimentation on transsexuals -- "Military mutilation : how the SADF forced gay solidiers to become women" -- Lasting implications of raced gender incongruence -- Redefining transition through necropolitics -- Approaches to transition -- Envisioning freedom -- Beyond liminality and "states of injury."

Transitioning from the transition -- "Extra-transsexual" transitions -- Notes -- Bibliography.

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Gender identity-- South Africa.

Intersexuality-- South Africa.

Transsexualism-- South Africa-- History.

Transsexuals-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- South Africa.

Gender identity.

Intersexuality.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gender Studies.

Transsexualism.

Transsexuals-- Legal status, laws, etc.

South Africa.

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Swarr, Amanda Lock.

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