"Invisible Lives" is the first scholarly study of transgendered people cross-dressers, drag queens and transsexuals and their everyday lives.
Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much "produced" by medicine or psychiatry as they are "erased," or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Namaste begins her work by analyzing two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people queer theory and the social sciences displaying how neither of these has adequately addressed the issues most...