The Look of a Woman
Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2017
208 pages
978-0-8223-7270-7 (ISBN)
Description
Eric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.
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Eric Plemons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. On Origins 21
Interlude. The Procedures 39
2. Femininity in the Clinic 43
Interlude. Celebrate! 67
3. Cutting as Caring 71
4. Recognition and Refusal 89
Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109
5. The Operating Room 113
6. And After 135
Conclusion 151
Notes 157
References 169
Index 185
Introduction 1
1. On Origins 21
Interlude. The Procedures 39
2. Femininity in the Clinic 43
Interlude. Celebrate! 67
3. Cutting as Caring 71
4. Recognition and Refusal 89
Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109
5. The Operating Room 113
6. And After 135
Conclusion 151
Notes 157
References 169
Index 185
