No Body: Clinical Constructions of Gender and Transsexuality - Pathologisation, Violence and Deconstruction

ISBN-13: 9781138227248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 108 str.

Miguel Rosellao Peanaloza

Opis

This pioneering book presents a novel analysis of transgender constructions within a clinical setting, examining the experiences of ‘transsexuality in treatment’ interpreted through psychological, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theories.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The (un)finished bodies and the (im)possible sexualities of Psychiatry Chapter 3. Clinical violence and juridical lack of recognition: the production of monsters Chapter 4. The biologization of the abnormal: somatic fictions of identity Chapter 5. The confessed story of unlivable lives: psychopathologization of oppressions Chapter 6. Monstrogenesis and monstrolysis: the regulative production of death. Conclusion

O autorze

Miguel Roselló-Peñaloza is Professor in the School of Psychology at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile. His research interests include feminisms and queer theory; the construction of difference and stigmatisation based on sex, gender and sexual practices; and deconstruction of psychopathology and power relations in science, clinical practices and public politics.