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raxI lost much of yesterday to a migraine and so I am behind on work and thus my notes this week will be really brief. But I wanted to at least mention this article here because it's about a dude who transitioned female to male, legally, in 1918. It's simultaneously super exciting and kinda depressing --- of the related documents, Devereaux says "This is scientific reading at the end of the pornographic spectrum." (177) There's a bunch more border warsy kinda stuff here, like what you see around Brandon Teena (and I have a whole collection of articles about that!).
Author's argument, which is compelling, is that not only is appropriation of Hart as a lesbian super problematic and gauche, but so is appropriation of Hart as a transsexual.
He did a bunch of work on X-Rays and there is an elaborate X-ray metaphor going on here. The way he challenged readers to question the authority of medical practicioners is pretty awesome (181). He also puts himself into conversation with detective novels, including detective novels by authors whose pseudonyms blurred gender lines.
Devereaux does a close reading of his medical books to find what may be a joke or a challenge in recommending X-ray sensitive tattoos inside people's bodies saying what medical work had been done on them --- and then using his own body, perhaps, as an example. This leads to considerations of archives, which seems to be this week's theme so far. I'm not going to try to synthesize that here --- I've only read 3/10 so far. The book sounds interesting and worth adding to my long reading list, which extends into forever, but still.
Author's argument, which is compelling, is that not only is appropriation of Hart as a lesbian super problematic and gauche, but so is appropriation of Hart as a transsexual.
He did a bunch of work on X-Rays and there is an elaborate X-ray metaphor going on here. The way he challenged readers to question the authority of medical practicioners is pretty awesome (181). He also puts himself into conversation with detective novels, including detective novels by authors whose pseudonyms blurred gender lines.
Devereaux does a close reading of his medical books to find what may be a joke or a challenge in recommending X-ray sensitive tattoos inside people's bodies saying what medical work had been done on them --- and then using his own body, perhaps, as an example. This leads to considerations of archives, which seems to be this week's theme so far. I'm not going to try to synthesize that here --- I've only read 3/10 so far. The book sounds interesting and worth adding to my long reading list, which extends into forever, but still.