Description

Is sex identity a feature of one's mind or body, and is it a relational or intrinsic property? Who is in the best position to know a person's sex, do we each have a true sex, and is a person's sex an alterable characteristic? When a person's sex assignment changes, has the old self disappeared and a new one emerged; or, has only the public presentation of one's self changed?

"You've Changed" examines the philosophical questions raised by the phenomenon of sex reassignment, and brings together the essays of scholars known for their work in gender, sexuality, queer, and disability studies, feminist epistemology and science studies, and philosophical accounts of personal identity. An interdisciplinary contribution to the emerging field of transgender studies, it will be of interest to students and scholars in a number of disciplines.

Features

• First collection to frame and address the philosophical and conceptual issues raised by transgender experiences
• Expands feminist philosophy by including transgender issues

Reviews

"The breadth of scope of the volume on 'trans' identities is awe-inspiring. [Christine] Overall's essay, like all essays in the volume, is praiseworthy for its sophisticated and serious effort. Gayle Salamon's essay, 'The Sexual Schema: Transportation and Transgender in Phenomenology of Perception,' is particularly brilliant for its appraisal of Merleau-Ponty's text and how it manages to illustrate how Merleau Ponty's work in general--once shunned for being too 'airy-fairy,' poetical, or qualitative-- proves quite useful to discussions of trans identities." --The Feminist Review

Product Details

232 pages; 6 1/8 X 9 1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-538570-0ISBN10: 0-19-538570-5

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