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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...
En junio de 2019 año hará 50 años que un grupo de personas se rebelaron a las puertas del bar Stonewall Inn en Nueva York contra la brutalidad policial, la discriminación y la desigualdad de ...
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El movimiento LGTB se enfrenta a su mayor reto en las últimas décadas: su propia supervivencia. Una de las reivindicaciones más antiguas de nuestra civilización atraviesa un momento decisivo. Después de los éxitos ...
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por Geoffroy Huard
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¿Cómo vivieron los gais durante el franquismo? ¿Qué discurso tenían sobre su sexualidad? ¿Estaba realmente condenada la homosexualidad? El historiador Geoffroy Huard intenta responder a estas preguntas a partir de numerosos periódicos, libros, testimonios, informes ...
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