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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...
por Carlos J. Valdivia Biedma, Nacho Esteban
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La historia de Oscar Wilde marca el inicio de una era. 125 años después de los juicios que arruinaron su vida, la editorial Egales recoge en una biografía ilustrada la vida, martirio y legado de ...
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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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por Óscar Hernández Campano
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Cincuenta años no son nada para el amor verdadero o para el rencor más profundo. Durante el verano de 1970, Marcos descubrió su homosexualidad, vivió un amor inmortal y conoció la intolerancia y el odio. ...
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