Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality Wendy Petersen Kimberly Bulcken

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Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality Wendy Petersen Kimberly BulckenWe believe we know our bodies intimatelythat 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 questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology (Maurice Merleau Ponty), psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud and Paul Ferdinand Schilder), and queer