Crossing gender in the Postmodern Italy
Forty years after transsexual coming out, from the beginning of a physical, cultural and historic transit, what has changed in Italy today? It is certainly the visibility that filled a historical vacuum. It allows us to speak, understand, read the trans experience: for some, as a phenomenon, for oth...
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| Language: | English |
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Università di Napoli Federico II
2013-10-01
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| Series: | La camera blu |
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| Online Access: | http://www.camerablu.unina.it/index.php/camerablu/article/view/1998 |
| Summary: | Forty years after transsexual coming out, from the beginning of a physical, cultural and historic transit, what has changed in Italy today? It is certainly the visibility that filled a historical vacuum. It allows us to speak, understand, read the trans experience: for some, as a phenomenon, for others, as category, pathology, gender incongruity. Open questions are several about a complex and varied experience on a socio-cultural contexts at same time complex and varied. One answer is certain: we can no longer talk about transsexualism / transgender in the singular, but rather about plural transsexualism. The Transsexualism is different, various, diversified according to several possible variations that the Post-modern presents us. |
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| ISSN: | 1827-9198 2531-6605 |