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Lou Sullivan Diaries (1970-1980) and Theories of Sexual Embodiment: Making Sense of Sensing
Cham: Springer Verlag (2017)
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This book highlights the intersection between theory and lived experience, academic description and the personal narrative of Lou Sullivan. Sullivan puzzled in his diaries over the conundrum of his desire to transition from female to male in order to be a gay man. The reader will follow Sullivan as he struggles with his feelings of maleness, in his troubled relationship with his lover, Tom, through his many sexual escapades, and finally, as he begins taking hormones. Alongside the diaries is an engagement with body and gender theories, accessible to the introductory reader, yet also taking up current debates especially in transgender studies.Author's Profile
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A Phenomenology of Embodiment
Introducing Husserl’s phenomenology of the body, the author argues that this approach can negotiate the different—and sometimes conflicting—manners in which we experience sexual embodiment. Following through several levels of embodiment as evident in Husserl’s analyses, the author argues that differ... see more
Lou Sullivan Diaries: 1976–1980
After discovering that Tom is in love with “another” woman again, Sullivan rejects his male identity and buys women’s clothes for the first time in three years. While he feels more comfortable dressing as a woman than he ever had before—thanks to addressing his “misogynist” attitudes with a therapis... see more
Discourses Available to Sullivan: The Kinsey Reports and The Transsexual Phenomenon
While the Kinsey reports —as they came to be known—neglected a distinction between transvestism and transsexuality, Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon made up for this omission. However, Benjamin focused his analyses on what he called “high intensity” transsexuals, in spite of his own descr... see more
Lou Sullivan Diaries: 1974–1975
Sullivan and Tom continue their long-distance relationship, with Sullivan in Milwaukee and Tom in San Francisco. Sullivan still experiments with his male identity as Lou, while informally advising others who identify in some way as trans. Eventually Tom moves back to Milwaukee, where he is depressed... see more
Theoretical Introduction to Discourse and the Body: Foucault, Butler, Queer Theory, and Transgender Studies
Beginning with basic philosophical distinctions that separate the mind from objects in the world, the author then moves to the philosophy of Michel Foucault, who argues that our understanding of sex arises from how different establishments talk about it. This move demonstrates a major shift in philo... see more
Lou Sullivan Diaries: 1970–1973
In his diaries from 1970 to 1973, we see Sullivan realizing that there is something different about his desires and feelings, leading him to feel isolated and alone. He finally admits to himself that, even though he was assigned the gender of female at birth, he feels like a man. Even more challengi... see more
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