Gayle Salamon: 3 books
The Life and Death of Latisha King
A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
What can the killing of a transgender teen teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?
The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom...
Assuming a Body
Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
We believe we know our bodies intimately-that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering...
by Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Gayle Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
At many universities, women’s studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women’s...