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Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology
Honorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Section on Sexualities of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2013 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies presented by the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies

Sex in Transition explores the lives of those who undermine the man/woman binary, exposing the gendered contradictions of apartheid and the transition to democracy in South Africa. In this context, gender liminality—a way to describe spaces between common conceptions of "man" and "woman"—is expressed by South Africans who identify as transgender, transsexual, transvestite, intersex, lesbian, gay, and/or eschew these categories altogether. This book is the first academic exploration of challenges to the man/woman binary on the African continent and brings together gender, queer, and postcolonial studies to question the stability of sex. It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender. Sex in Transition challenges the dominance of theoretical frameworks based in the global North, drawing on fifteen years of research in South Africa to define the parameters of a new transnational transgender and sexuality studies.
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Introduction: Transition Matters

1. Prescribing Gender and Enforcing Sex

2. Medical Experimentation and the Raced Incongruence of Gender

3. Redefining Transition through Necropolitics

4. Stabane, Raced Intersexuality and Same-Sex Relationships in Soweto

5. Performing Hierarchies and Kinky Politics: Drag in South Africa's Transition

Conclusion: “Extra-Transsexual” Meanings and Transgender Politics

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Sexualité

sexualité

Sexualité

Gender studies

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	06 décembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	4
EAN13	9781438444086
Langue	English

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Sex in Transition
Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa
Amanda Lock Swarr

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Swarr, Amanda Lock.
Sex in transition : remaking gender and race in South Africa / Amanda Lock Swarr.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4406-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-4407-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Transsexualism—South Africa—History. 2. Transsexuals—Legal status, laws, etc.—South Africa. 3. Intersexuality—South Africa. 4. Gender identity—South Africa. I. Title.
HQ77.95.S6S93 2012
305.30968—dc23
2011047984
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Acknowledgments
This book has developed over fifteen years and was a collective labor in every way. Without many people in South Africa, this work simply would not have been possible. Midi Achmat, Theresa Raizenberg, Bass John Khumalo, Conny Mchunu, Phumla Masuku, Donna van der Walt, Michelle Asburner, Barbara Rass, Dawie Nel, Juan Nel, Flo Belvedere, and Prudence Mabele opened their homes to me and allowed me to become part of their lives. Others in South Africa who went out of their way time and time again to offer assistance include Zackie Achmat, Pieter Dirk-Uys, Walter Dominique-Dunn, Sally Gross, Simone Heradien, Evert Knoesen, Premesh Lalu, Jack Lewis, Zanele Muholi, Tebogo Nkoana, Sophie Oldfield, Yvonne Shapiro, Carrie Shelver, Funeka Soldaat, and Liesl Theron.
Spending time with and in organizations, groups, and workplaces taught me more than I can measure and allowed me to be part of meaningful actions. Thank you to members of the Treatment Action Campaign, AIDS Law Project, Association of Bisexuals, Gays, and Lesbians (ABIGALE), Umanyano, Gender DynamiX, Behind the Mask, Forum for the Empowerment of Women, FreeGender, Hope and Unity Metropolitan Community Church (HUMCC), Sistahs Kopinang, Gays and Lesbians of the Witwatersrand (GLOW), Triangle Project, Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality/Equality Project, Gay and Lesbian Legal Advice Center (GLLAC), International Gay and Lesbian Association (ILGA)–Africa, Womyn, Pride Committee, Gay and Lesbian Organization of Pretoria (GLOP)/OUT, Uthingo, Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Idol Pictures, The Glitter Sisters, The Brunswick Follies, Mince, Centre for the Book, Rape Crisis–Cape Town, and United Sanctuary for our conversations and collaborations over the past fifteen years.
Financial support for early stages of this research came from the University of Minnesota Graduate School in the form of a Graduate School Fellowship, President's International Predissertation Fellowship, Grant for Research Abroad, Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship (with Richa Nagar), as well as from funding provided by the Anthropology Department, the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, and the Schochet Center. The MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Social Change, Sustainability, and Justice/Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change supported this work financially, as well as serving as my intellectual home; within this program, thanks go especially to Allen Isaacman, as well as Karen Brown, Bud Duvall, Mary Gervais, Dave Henrikson, Jim Johnson, Linda Littrell, and Claudia Shores Skue and to the faculty who dedicated their time to mentoring MacArthur scholars.
I am grateful to participants in the MacArthur Gender Consortium for providing invaluable feedback and helping me think through these chapters at many stages, particularly Lisa Disch, Jennifer Pierce, Richa Nagar, Karen Brown Thompson, Amy Kaminsky, Libby Lunstrum, Hokulani Aikau, Leila Harris, Keiko Inoue, Tina Chen, Sally Kenney, and the late Susan Geiger. Feminist intellectual community at the University of Minnesota based in the department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies was also invaluable, and I'm especially grateful for the support of my co-advisors, Amy Kaminsky and Richa Nagar, as well as Naomi Scheman, Helen Longino, Jigna Desai, Jacquelyn Zita, Janie Jurgens, and Myrna Klitzke. Other mentors who have supported me over many years include Kathleen Barlow and the late Janet Spector.
A Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Barnard College also supported my research and writing, based in the Women's Studies Department. During years spent in New York, I was immensely appreciative of the engagement of Chi-ming Yang, Chris Cynn, Janet Jackobsen, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Alison Wylie, Elizabeth Bernstein, Maxine Weingrau, Elizabeth Castelli, Natalie Kampen, and Lila Abu-Lughod.
Support from the University of Washington in the form of a Royalty Research Fellowship, as part of the Simpson Center's Society of Scholars, and from my home department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies helped me to complete this work. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to colleagues at the University of Washington, including Rebecca Aanarud, David Allen, Jerry Baldasty, Miriam Bartha, Clare Bright, Jeanette Bushnell, Rachel Chapman, David Domke, Angela Ginorio, Michelle Habell-Pallán, Gillian Harkins, Danny Hoffman, Judy Howard, Ralina Joseph, Nancy Kenney, Kari Lerum, Shaun Lopez, Priti Ramamurthy, Luana Ross, Lynn Thomas, Shirley Yee, Sasha Su-Ling Welland, and Kathleen Woodward.
Assistance in the archival and technical research for this book came in varied locales. Graeme Reid, Ruth Morgan, Anthony Manion, and Busi Khwesa of the Gay and Lesbian Archives/Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action at the University of the Witwatersrand pointed me to critical sources. Librarians Kathy Robbins, Judy Wells, and Becky Hoffman at the University of Minnesota, Yuusuf Caruso at Columbia University, and especially Cass Hartnett at the University of Washington were consistently helpful in obtaining obscure resources. Myrna Klitzke at the University of Minnesota, Sierra Ortiz at Barnard College, and Carol Langdon and Elaine Haig-Widner at the University of Washington provided invaluable staff support. Engaged research assistance on final revisions was provided by graduate students Kai Kohlsdorf, Kate Mottolla, and Sean Jarvis, who were vital interlocutors in this project. SUNY Reviewers, including William Leap, and staff, including Beth Bouloukos, Andrew Kenyon, Kate McDonnell, Larin McLaughlin, Ryan Morris, and Kelli Williams-LeRoux, pushed this book toward publication, even when I resisted. Thanks to Dave Prout for conscientious work on the index.
Friends like Desiree Fintel, Tambra Donohue, Shari Geistfeld, Beth Mitchell, and Adam Sitze all helped in important ways in the process of research and writing. I am always already grateful for Joel Wainwright; his friendship, encouragement, and resilient faith in me have inspired me for over twenty years. Richa Nagar has been so much more than a mentor and collaborator; she's been my touchstone in reminding me of the political commitments that must always come first.
My family has endured long absences and supported me unconditionally. My parents—Barbara “CL” Harvey, Daniel Harvey, Fred Swarr, and Valerie Swarr—made me who I am. My sister, Jessica Stout, provided perspective on the things that really matter, like Nate Stout, Drew Stout, and Gabe Williams. My brothers and their families inspire me; Gabe, Karla, Zach, Maribeth, and Declan all make me proud to be a Swarr. Kathleen and Frank Smoker, Elsie and John Swarr, Alice Harvey, and Arna and Mark Kaufman have given me lifelong stability. Without my partner T Steele, and our kids Theo Johnson, Matthew Steele, and Jennifer Johnson (and granddaughter Aubrey), I would be sitting alone in a turret in Seattle. T translates my academic language to point out what these words really mean to me and to others, and her excitement about my work, politics, and ideas consistently reinspire me.
Finally, I am appreciative of Sam Bullington; we worked together in conceiving our dissertation topics, carried out most of the work in South Africa as research partners, and figured out connections together. During over a decade of research Sam organized photographs and tapes, maintained relationships, and kept meticulous notes. His constant support and companionship, focus and thoroughness, welcome distractions, careful readings, historical memory, patience, insights, and strength made this work possible, and my appreciation for this and all it has meant in shaping this work goes beyond words.
While all of this collaboration and help was essential, I take responsibility for any errors of omission or commission in this book. Any proceeds from its publication will be donated to South African organizations working on issues addressed here.
An earlier version of Chapter 4 was published as:
Swarr, Amanda Lock. “ Stabane , Intersexuality, and Same-sex Relationships in Soweto,” Feminist Studies , 35 (3), fall 2009: 524–548.
An earlier version of Chapter 5 was published as:
Swarr, Amanda Lock. “ Moffies , Artist