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"Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Sex change is a plot--and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. In reading the transssexual plot through transsexuals' own recounting, Prosser not only gives us a new and more accurate rendition of transsexuality. His book suggests transsexuality, with itsextraordinary conjunctions of body and narrative, as an identity story that transitions across the body/language divide that currently stalls poststucturalist thought. The form and approach of Second Skins works to cross other important and parallel divides. In addition to analyzing transsexual textual accounts, the book includes some 30 photographic portraits of transsexuals--poignant attempts by transsexuals to present themselves unmediated to the world except by the camera. And the author does not shy from exposure himself. Interjecting the personal into his theoretical discussion and close textual work throughout the book, Prosser reads and writes his own body, his purpose in that stylistic crossing to stake out transsexuality--and hence this very book--as his own body's narrative." --

Transsexualism. --- #SBIB:316.346H00 --- #SBIB:613.88H30 --- Transexualism --- Transexuality --- Transsexuality --- Transgenderism --- Man-vrouw-studies, gender: algemeen --- Seksuele probleemgebieden --- Gender nonconformity --- Gender expression --- Gender identity --- Transsexualism --- Transgender people

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Lesbians in literature. --- Thematology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Hall, Radclyffe --- Great Britain --- Homosexuality --- LGBTQIA literature --- Writers --- Book

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Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways of responding to photographs, are part of the standard lexicon for discussions of photography; Barthes's understanding of photographic time and the relationship he forges between photography and death have been invoked countless times in photographic discourse; and the current interest in vernacular photographs and the ubiquity of subjective, even novelistic, ways of writing about photography both owe something to Barthes. Photography Degree Zero, the first anthology of writings on Camera Lucida, goes beyond the usual critical orthodoxies to offer a range of perspectives on Barthes's important book. Photography Degree Zero (the title links Barthes's first book, Writing Degree Zero, to his last, Camera Lucida) includes essays written soon after Barthes's book appeared as well as more recent rereadings of it, some previously unpublished. The contributors' approaches range from psychoanalytical (in an essay drawing on the work of Lacan) to Buddhist (in an essay that compares the photographic flash to the mystic's light of revelation); they include a history of Barthes's writings on photography and an account of Camera Lucida and its reception; two views of the book through the lens of race; and a provocative essay by Michael Fried and two responses to it.

77.01 --- fotografietheorie --- fotografie --- Barthes Roland --- semiotiek --- La chambre claire --- psychoanalyse --- fotografie en psychoanalyse --- boeddhisme --- fotografie en boeddhisme --- filosofie --- kunsttheorie --- 7.01 --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Photographie. --- Kunstbeschouwing. --- Photographic criticism --- Photography, Artistic --- Photography --- Artistic photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Photography criticism --- Criticism --- Philosophy --- Aesthetics --- Barthes, Roland. --- Fotografie. --- Philosophie. --- Photographic criticism. --- Photography, Artistic. --- Philosophy. --- PHL-Research 13 --- kunst --- Critique photographique --- Photographie --- Photographie artistique --- Philosophie

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Within the larger context of cultural memory, family pictures have become one of the most intriguing multi- and interdisciplinary fields of investigation in the past decade. This field brings together artists working in different media (e.g. documentary photography and film, photo-based painting and installations, digital art, collage, montage, comics, etc.) as well as academics, critics, theorists and writers working in a wide range of disciplines including literature, history, art history, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, film and media studies, visual culture studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, and word and image studies. This volume intends to offer a broad, panoramic view of the topic combining West and East European as well as American perspectives.

Photography --- Photography of families. --- Arts and society. --- Memory in art. --- Families --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- 20th century, Family life, Memory in art, Photography.