Transmogrification: (Un)Becoming Other(s)

Abstract

A number of critical theorists have, of late, posited connections between transgender body modi* cation(s) and other modi* catory practices such as tattooing, branding, piercing, and so on. Drawing similar analogies, others have discussed the ambiguous and o+ en fraught relationship with surgery that (some) transsexuals, transgenderists, and those who undergo ‘cosmetic’ and/or modi* - catory procedures more generally, may experience. Perhaps at bottom, what procedures as diverse as mastectomies, penectomies, hormone treatments, tattooing, breast enhancement, implants, corsetry, rhinoplasty, scari* cation, branding, and so on, have in common, is that they all function, in varying ways and to varying degrees, to explicitly transform bodily being-they are all, in one sense at least, ‘trans’ practices.

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