Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

by Viviane Namaste

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226568091
• ISBN13: 9780226568096
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"