David Valentine

Subfields of Interest within Anthropology:

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

Transgender

Regions of specialization and Languages:

North America

Major Publications:

• 2003 "I went to bed with my own kind once": the erasure of desire in the name of identity. Language and Communication 23:123–138 (special issue on language and desire).

• 2003 "The calculus of pain": violence, anthropological ethics, and the category transgender. Ethnos 66(1):27–48. To be reprinted in: Local actions: cultural activism, power and public life in America (in press, 2004). Maggie Fishman and Melissa Checker (eds.) New York: Columbia University Press.

• 2002 "We're not about gender": the uses of "transgender." In Out in Theory: the Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap (eds). pp.222–245. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

• 2001 Transsexuality, transvestism, and transgender. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 23. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds). pp. 15888–15892. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier (With Don Kulick)

• 1997 One percent on the burn chart: gender, genitals, and hermaphrodites with attitude. Social Text 52/53:215–222. (With Riki Anne Wilchins)