The Made-Up State Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia

Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia"
English | ISBN: 1501766643 | 2022 | 198 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia’s trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography and feminine beauty.