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Assuming a Body challenges the certainty of bodily materiality in shaping sex, gender, and identity. Through phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory, Gayle Salamon offers a new framework that sees transgender embodiment not as pathology but as a productive tension between the felt sense of the body and its corporeal contours. By redefining what counts as a body, the book provides a groundbreaking exploration of gender's phenomenological life.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Psychology/General Psychology
Authors: Gayle Salamon
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