Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics. Exploring the reasons for which desire to modify their bodies, it moves away from the focus on gender that characterizes work on transpeople’s embodiment, to investigate the concept of bodily aesthetics. Recent allowing transsexuals to apply for gender recognition provides the context in which transpeople challenge the conventional of what it means to be men and women. book examines key approaches to recognizing transsexualism from within a variety of fields considers transsexuals’ bodies, body projects and embodiment in relation to personal, and medico-legal fields. It explores the ways in which transpeople’s bodily aesthetics social relations – such as sexual relations, acceptance by others and their families – also considering contemporary political trans community organizations and their public of trans-bodies. Transsexuals is the first sociological examination of how the bodies of transpeople figured and reconfigured in socio, politico and medico-legal contexts and considers the of these shifts, and will be of interest to those with interests in embodiment, the of law, sexology, medical sociology and gender theory.
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Zowie Davy (2011) studied this question.