| 书目名称 | Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa | | 副标题 | Bodies Over Borders | | 编辑 | B Camminga | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Makes the case that ‘transgender’, as a discourse and a politics, has materialised in South Africa in particular forms due to a combination of social, political and cultural conditions peculiar to the | | 丛书名称 | Global Queer Politics | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book tracks the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North—where it originated—along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa and considers the interrelationships between the two. The term ‘transgender‘ transforms as it travels, taking on meaning in relation to bodies, national homes, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. This study centres on the experiences and narratives of people that can be usefully termed ‘gender refugees‘, gathered through a series of life story interviews. It is the argument of this book that the departures, border crossings, arrivals and perceptions of South Africa for gender refugees have been both enabled and constrained by the contested meanings and politics of this emergence of transgender. This book explores, through these narratives, the radical constitutional-legal possibilities for ‘transgender‘ in South Africa, the dissonances between thepossibilities of constitutional law, and the pervasive politics/logic of binary ‘sex/gender’ within South African society. In doing so, this book enriches the emergent field of Transgender Studies and chall | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | South African Constitution; Transgender Studies in South Africa; South Africa constitutional law; Gende | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92669-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-06486-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-92669-8Series ISSN 2569-1317 Series E-ISSN 2569-1309 | | issn_series | 2569-1317 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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