Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: This article critically engages aspects of Kate Bornstein's transgender theory as found in Gender Outlaw. Drawing on recent work in Lacanian psychoanalysis, and on insights from Bornstein's account, I pose questions about the ways in which sex, gender, desire, and subjectivity are theorized. RESUME Cet article discute de facon critique les aspects de la theorie de transgenderisme de Kate Borsntein tels que retrouves dans "Gender Outlaw. " En me servant d'ouvrages recents sur la psychoanalyse lacanienne, et sur les compte-rendus de Bornstein, je questionne la facon dont on met en theorie le sexe, le genre, le desir et la subjectivite. As a feminist teaching and researching in the field of the sociology of gender, I found myself drawn, as others were in the early 1990s, to accounts of transsexuality for the insight they might provide into the complexities of gender. In 1992 I wrote a critique of the fantasy of the naturally gendered body, a fantasy that is prevalent not only
Author: Patricia Elliot
Institution: Wilfrid Laurier University
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1524360434