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Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men

Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men

Rubin, Henry

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Women's HealthGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0826514359
ISBN13: 9780826514356
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Jun 1 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
In Self-Made Men, Henry Rubin explores the production of male identities in the lives of twenty-two FTM transsexuals--people who have changed their sex from female to male. The author relates the compelling personal narratives of his subjects to the historical emergence of FTM as an identity category.

In the interviews that form the heart of the book, the FTMs speak about their struggles to define themselves and their diverse experiences, from the pressures of gender conformity in adolescence to being mistaken for butch lesbians, from hormone treatments and surgeries to relationships with families, partners, and acquaintances. Their stories of feeling betrayed by their bodies and of undergoing a second puberty are vivid and thought-provoking. Throughout the interviews, the subjects' claims to having core male identities are remarkably consistent and thus challenge anti-essentialist assumptions in current theories of gender, embodiment, and identity.

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