Who Is the Subject of Gender Self-determination?
This essay poses two critical questions about trans politics as elaborated in the Global North today: Who is the subject of gender self-determination? And what, precisely, is mobilized by tying political sovereignty to gendered persecution and ethical world-making, trans or otherwise? To answer thos...
| Publicado en: | Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 202 - 224 |
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Duke University Press
Dec2024
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