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Assuming a Body

Transgender Theory and Rhetorics of Materiality

by Gayle Salamon

2010 240 pages eng

We believe we know our bodies intimately, that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Consideri…

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