In 1930 Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a series of surgeries to live as Lili Ilse Elvenes (more commonly known as Lili Elbe). Her life story, Fra Mand til Kvinde (From Man to Woman), is the first popular full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes …
Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman, won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal …
"... Makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home"--From publisher description.
" ... Makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home"--Publisher description.
List of illustrations -- Permissions -- Preface -- Translinguality -- Transgender and translation -- Fucking binaries -- A confession -- Structure of the book -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Why should cisnormative translation scholars care about translation and transgender? -- 2. The …
