MACMILLAN Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives

This book takes both transgender and intersex positions into account and asks about commonalities and strategic alliances in terms of knowledge, theory, philosophy, art, and life experience. It strikes a balance between works on literature, film, photography, sports, law, and general theory, bringing together humanistic and social science approaches. Horlacher adopts a non-hierarchical perspective and asks how transgender and intersex issues are conceptualized from a variety of different viewpoints and to what extent artistic and creative discourses offer their own uniquely relevant forms of knowledge and expression. From the Back Cover This book takes both transgender and intersex positions into account and asks about commonalities and strategic alliances in terms of knowledge, theory, philosophy, art, and life experience. It strikes a balance between works on literature, film, photography, sports, law, and general theory, bringing together humanistic and social science approaches. Horlacher adopts a non-hierarchical perspective and asks how transgender and intersex issues are conceptualized from a variety of different viewpoints and to what extent artistic and creative discourses offer their own uniquely relevant forms of knowledge and expression.   About the Author Stefan Horlacher is Head of Department and Chair of English Literature at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He holds degrees from Mannheim University, Germany and from the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), France and has published on English and French literature as well as on Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, psychoanalysis, and theories of the comic.