TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salamon,Gayle
TI  - The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia 
T2  - Sexual Cultures
SN  - 9781479835911
AV  - HQ77.8.K56 S25 2018eb
U1  - 306.76/8 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - United States
KW  - Homophobia
KW  - Murder
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Sexual orientation
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Transphobia
KW  - LAW / Gender & the Law
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. COMPORTMENT --; 2. MOVEMENT --; 3. ANONYMITY --; 4. OBJECTS --; CODA: TWO DAYS IN FEBRUARY --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; WORKS CITED --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access
N2  - What can the killing of a transgender teen can teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brian McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on the resources of feminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and dehumanizing act. Salamon offers close readings of the court transcript and the bodily gestures of the participants in the courtroom to illuminate the ways gender and race were both evoked in and expunged from the narrative of the killing. Across court documents and media coverage, Salamon sheds light on the relation between the speakable and unspeakable in the workings of the transphobic imaginary. Interdisciplinary in both scope and method, the book considers the violences visited upon gender-nonconforming bodies that are surveilled and othered, and the contemporary resonances of the Latisha King killing
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479835911.001.0001
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ER  -