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SUMMARY:Invisible Lives: Thinking critically about transgender issues - Ju
 liet Jacques
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CONTACT:Andrew N Holding
DESCRIPTION:The emergence of gender variant people\, practices and identit
 ies following the publication of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Transvestites (1909
 ) and the inter-war invention of sex reassignment technologies posed consi
 derable challenges to conservative\, socialist\, feminist and gay/lesbian 
 politics: if ‘male’ and ‘female’ were no longer true\, then what w
 as? \n\nConsequently\, transgender people became an object of fascination\
 , and plenty was written about them – by the mainstream media\, feminist
 s and the medical establishment whose management of transsexualism has pro
 ved especially controversial – with transgender people themselves freque
 ntly excluded from the conversation\, with their identities erased or disc
 ounted\, or having their experiences framed by people or outlets with no l
 ived experience of being transgender.\n\nJuliet Jacques\, author of the Gu
 ardian’s Transgender Journey series which documents the gender reassignm
 ent process from a first-person perspective\, critically examines some of 
 the ideas and myths that grew around transgender people\, and the gulf bet
 ween mainstream political and media discussions of transgender issues and 
 the autonomous transgender theory and identities that developed in respons
 e.\n\nRead Juliet's blog here: http://julietjacques.blogspot.com/ and her 
 Guardian column here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/27/t
 ransgender-journey-public-spaces
LOCATION:The Maypole
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