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Look! But Also, Touch!: Theorizing Images of Trans Eroticism Beyond a Politics of Visual Essentialism

Chapter of: Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics: Desire, Affect, and Representation in Pornography(pp. 59–75)

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TitleLook! But Also, Touch!
SubtitleTheorizing Images of Trans Eroticism Beyond a Politics of Visual Essentialism
ContributorEliza Steinbock(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0141.1.07
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/porno-graphics-and-porno-tactics/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightSteinbock, Eliza
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-05-26
Long abstractJamison Green’s essay “Look! No, Don’t!: The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men” discusses the conflict between on the one hand claiming that “we” transsexuals want to be invisible, while on the other hand begging to be acknowledged. The activism that demands that society “Look!” is carried out through what Green calls “public ‘confessions,’” revelations that are situated beyond family, lovers, and doctors in increasingly public spaces such as classrooms, the television, and especially, in films.1 The counter-imperative “No, don’t!,” as Green explains, relates to being caught up in the regulation of transsexual treatment, in which “in order to be a good – or successful – transsexual person, one is not sup-posed to be a transsexual person at all.”2 At least from a medical perspective, the aim of hormonal and surgical treatment is to make the patient feel “normal” (that is, non-transsexual or dysphoric), a cure embodied by not drawing attention to oneself as transsexual.
Page rangepp. 59–75
Print length17 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)