19 mai 2008

Gendered Sexuality

How Many Sexes? How Many Genders?
When Two Are Not Enough

by

A. H. Devor, Ph.D.

Sociology Department
University of Victoria, Canada

web.uvic.ca

Three Examples of Gendered Sexuality

#	Persons in Relationship	Sex	Sex by Sex	Gender	Gender by Gender	Gendered Sexuality
1	Male Crossdresser Female Woman	Male Female	Male Heterosexual Female Heterosexual	Woman Woman	Lesbian Woman Lesbian Woman	Male Heterosexual Crossdresser Lesbian Woman Female Heterosexual Lesbian Woman
2	Male Crossdresser Male Man	Male Male	Male Homosexual Male Homosexual	Woman Man	Straight Woman Straight Man	Male Homosexual Crossdresser Straight Woman Male Homosexual Straight Man
3	Male Crossdresser Female Crossdresser	Male Female	Male Heterosexual Female Heterosexual	Woman Man	Straight Woman Straight Man	Male Heterosexual Crossdresser Straight Woman Female Heterosexual Crossdresser Straight Man

In the course of working on my second book, FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society , I have met and shared time at meetings, conferences, and social events with several hundred female-to-male transsexuals, a handful of whom I count as among my personal friends. I have also interviewed 45 people, for 3-6 hours each, who identify themselves as female-to-male transsexuals. The people whom I interviewed came from all regions of North America and represent a variety of socioeconomic, ethnic and racial standings. They also ranged from transsexual-identified women living as women to people who had grown up as females but had been living as men for approximately twenty years.

In the early 1980s, I began the research for my book Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality . In that work, I set out to study a few women out of a transgendered population I dubbed as "gender blending females". These people may be either heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual or women who have clear self-identities as biological females and as women. They dress and deport themselves in ways which are not stereotypically feminine but neither do they try to appear to be men or boys. Often, to their own consternation, they are not always successful at communicating their identities to other people who come into casual contact with them. Among their friends and acquaintances, and to many strangers, they are clearly women. Yet, they are often taken to be men when dealing with people who are meeting them for the first time.

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LOREN CAMERON : BODY ALCHEMY

LOREN CAMERON : BODY ALCHEMY

Loren Cameron - Launch Page- [ Traduire cette page ]

Website dedicated to Loren Cameron, Author and Photographer. www.lorencameron.com/

Dans le cadre de F***MYBRAIN, Loren Cameron sera à Paris le 21 mai au Palais de Tokyo pour une performance autobiographique et un slide show qui invite les spectateurs à célébrer la culture transgenre et à revoir d'un autre oeil nos classiques du nu... En jouant avec les codes de l'autoportrait et de la photo anatomique, il parvient à une représentation inédite des corps trans, au delà de toute pathologisation et médicalisation.

http://www.fmybrain.org/

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Son livre Body Alchelmy, Transsexuals Portraits (paru en 1996) est l'une des premières contributions de la culture transgenre émergente dans les années 90 qui a explosé depuis dans des champs aussi divers que l'art ou la théorie. Loren Cameron est aussi l'auteur de Man Tool: The Nuts and Bolts of Female-to-Male Surgery (Zero eBooks). Il a présenté ses oeuvres à Harvard, Cornell, Brown University, l'University of California at Berkeley et the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Cuerpos Fotografiados Por Cameron 1 and 2, Correspondence 1997-2001, Son travail récent vient d'être publié en 3 volumes et fait partie du projet Experimental Cuerpos Pintados dirigé par le photographe chilien Roberto Edwards.
http://www.lorencameron

Loren Rex Cameron was born in Pasadena, California in 1959. He moved to rural Arkansas in 1968 after his mother's death, where he describes himself as being raised as a tomboy on his father's farm. After identifying as a lesbian at the age of sixteen, he encountered homophobic hostility in the small town where he lived. This motivated him to quit school and run away from home to travel the country and work hard scrabble jobs. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1979 where he lived as a part of the lesbian community until the age of twenty-six, when he faced his discomfort with his female body and gender. His interest in photography began as he documented his own transition. Having no formal training, in 1993 Cameron taught himself the rudiments of photography and began to respectfully photograph himself and other transsexuals.

Loren Rex Cameron's photography and writing was first collected in Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, a book documenting his personal experience with the transition from female to male, his life as a man, and the everyday lives of transmen he knew. Body Alchemy was met with much positive criticism and ended up a double 1996 Lambda Literary Award winner. It remains his most well-known work, although he has since published other works, including an e-book, and three books through Cuerpos Pintados, which focused on transsexual nudes. Cameron's photographs have been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, and has also been published in several books by other authors, including Transgender Warriors (Leslie Feinberg, 1996) and Constructing Masculinity: Discussions in Contemporary Culture (Routledge, 1995), as well as in numerous magazines.^[1][2] Cameron also makes lectures about his work throughout the United States at institutions including Smith College, Harvard, Cornell, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, Penn State University, Washington University in St. Louis and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been a guest speaker at the Society for Photographic Education Conference and the FTM International Conference, and interviewed on the Discovery Health Channel's LGBT-themed one-hour special Sex Change: Him to Her, BBC and in The New Yorker.^[1][3][4] Cameron's photographs document the lives and bodies of both transsexual men and women and continues to spread the message in order to make transsexualism appear more positive and less taboo. His first published works (Body Alchemy and Man Tool: The Nuts and Bolts of Female-to-Male Surgery) consists largely of self-portraits, FTM body modifications, and portraits of other female to male transsexuals. More recently published work is a diverse and unprecedented representation of both female and male transsexuals, portraits and classical nudes (Photographs by Loren Cameron Volume 1 and 2, and Cameron Correspondence 1997-2003, Taller Experimental Cuerpos Pintados 2003). A current photographic project focuses on the sexuality of gay and bisexual FTMs.