Transsexuality as Trope
Feminism, Sex, and Gender track
Sunday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
Much science fiction and fantasy of recent years deals with changing sex. But it treats it as a trope rather than a process: Larque on the Wing, I Will Fear No Evil, "Changes," the work of John Varley. While there is no denying the usefulness of transsexuality as a trope in discussing the social construction of gender, what are we missing by eliding transsexuality's nature as a process?
M: Lyda Morehouse, Charlie Anders, Elizabeth Bear, BC Holmes, Jennifer Pelland
bcholmes mostly speaks for me in her report about this panel. So I'm just listing here some stories/books mentioned in the panel that sounded interesting.
Varley story dealing with trans process, maybe in Blue Champagne eta: "Options," sezjames_nicoll
Charlie Stross Glass House includes notion of transitioning from being "human" to being gendered. The transition is not entirely consensual.
Grant Morrison Invisibles comic book series
Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back is a controversial book by a journalist who passed as a man to report on male culture and the psychology of men
Feminism, Sex, and Gender track
Sunday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
Much science fiction and fantasy of recent years deals with changing sex. But it treats it as a trope rather than a process: Larque on the Wing, I Will Fear No Evil, "Changes," the work of John Varley. While there is no denying the usefulness of transsexuality as a trope in discussing the social construction of gender, what are we missing by eliding transsexuality's nature as a process?
M: Lyda Morehouse, Charlie Anders, Elizabeth Bear, BC Holmes, Jennifer Pelland
bcholmes mostly speaks for me in her report about this panel. So I'm just listing here some stories/books mentioned in the panel that sounded interesting. Varley story dealing with trans process, maybe in Blue Champagne eta: "Options," sez
james_nicollCharlie Stross Glass House includes notion of transitioning from being "human" to being gendered. The transition is not entirely consensual.
Grant Morrison Invisibles comic book series
Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back is a controversial book by a journalist who passed as a man to report on male culture and the psychology of men
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It's an excerpt from her book The Woman Who Pretended To Be Who She Was (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Someone needs to write a screen play about d'Eon, which would then be filmed once with John Malkovich in the title role, and once with Scarlett Johanssen.
You have read Julie Phillips' James Tiptree Jr biography, right?