5.0752 Rs: Transgendering; CALIS (3/51)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 9 Mar 1992 19:20:24 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0752. Monday, 9 Mar 1992.
(1) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 92 12:44:24 EST (22 lines)
From: Edward.Vasta.1@nd.edu
Subject: Transgendering
(2) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 08:26:26 PLT (17 lines)
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Psychology, Imagery, Language of Transgendering
(3) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 10:27 CST (12 lines)
From: CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX
Subject: CALIS E-Address
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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 92 12:44:24 EST
From: Edward.Vasta.1@nd.edu
Subject: Transgendering
A Humanist colleague in Canada has just responded to my transgendering
posting (for which I'm grateful and send my thanks), and has also called
attention to my use of the word "silly". I should have explained in my
posting that I'm a medievalist working on a Middle English work (14th
century). In the realms of medieval scholarship, my idea may seem perfectly
silly. To make a serious case, I'll have to come up with both medieval data
and plausible literary, and inevitably post-modern, theory. For medieval
data, I do have Thomas Laqueur's _Making Sex: Body and Gender from the
Greeks to Freud_(Harvard, l990); for the post-modern theory, I have a few
articles on language but nothing more. I don't think Lacan, for example,
brings up this subject in his psychological theorizing --or does he?
Anyway, I will appreciate any leads anyone can send.
Edward Vasta
203 Decio Faculty Hall
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46656
Voice: (219) 239-6330 FAX: (219) 239-8209
INTERNET: Edward.Vasta.1@nd.edu
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 08:26:26 PLT
From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1>
Subject: Psychology, Imagery, Language of Transgendering
This doesn't really deal with the original query, but I was reminded of
Bron Helstrom, the protagonist of Samuel R. Delany's classic science
fiction novel Triton. He is a lonely macho-type in an egalitarian
culture which recognizes no such role who becomes so desperate for a
woman a misogynist can love that he decides to become the kind of
woman he wants, but fails because his sex-change is merely physical.
Anybody interested in gender roles should read Triton--it's a brilliant
book by SF's greatest gender satirist. Delany is a one-man affirmative
action project: gay, black, dyslexic; but the reason to read his work
is that he is one of the most subtle thinkers around. My students have
had trouble with Triton because they tried to identify with the hero
instead of viewing him as the target of Delany's satire. A modern
classic, so of course it's out of print.
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 10:27 CST
From: CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX
Subject: CALIS E-Address
I think the e-mail address for the Duke Humanities Computing Project,
which produces CALIS, is DUCALL@DUKECVM1
At any rate, I do know that they have set up a bulletin board for CALIS
users. You can reach it at 1-919-684-3169.
Dan M. Church
Vanderbilt University