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By Jane Haile
One reads Miquel Missé’s The Myth of the Wrong Body with growing excitement and thumping of the air not just because of one’s sympathy with its content, but also because of his sociological approach to the material. Very few social scientists have seriously applied their skills to critical analysis of ideas about sex and gender.
The book analyzes narratives of transness and the author’s conviction of the incorrectness of his previous beliefs, which “robbed” him of his body.
There are two main narratives of transness: the dominant one, which Missé correctly identifies as emerging from the medical establishment is that trans individuals are “trapped in the wrong body” and therefore need to correct their bodies through (expensive) hormonal treatment and surgery; and a second, emerging and less popular narrative, which is that transness or transgender is a normal part of natural human variety and does not need to be fixed by expensive hormonal treatment and surgery. The myth of the wrong body is the mirror image of the myth that there are only two sexes and two genders...
El relato más popular sobre la transexualidad ha señalado que nuestro malestar reside en nuestro cuerpo y la solución es transformarlo. Sin embargo, otras voces han querido impugnar ese relato con nuevas preguntas: ¿y si ...
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Bisutería auténtica es una crónica de amor a las identidades disidentes y camp, personificadas en estos ocho relatos por travestis, transformistas y mujeres trans. Un joyero con el que el autor rinde homenaje a ...
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Falta de deseo sexual, relaciones tóxicas, enamorarse de una mujer heterosexual, rupturas, malentendidos, celos, crisis de pareja... La vida afectiva de las mujeres que mantienen relaciones con otras mujeres está llena de altibajos y ninguna ...
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