| 英文摘要 |
This essay aims to explore transsexual narratives of sexual identity and sexual desire in The Chen Story and to elaborate the embodied sex/gender consciousness. The Chen Story is the first transsexual autobiography written by a male-to-female (MTF) transsexual“Chen”, who came out and self-proclaimed (instead of being diagnosed) as the primary transsexualism. This critical case also had a major impact on the institutionalization of gender-affirming hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery in Taiwan in the 1980s. This essay found that Chen’s transsexual narratives indeed reproduced and reinforced the existing sex/gender ideology frequently in her rhetoric, including homophobia and heteronormativity. However, the volitionalist and nominalist rhetoric of Chen meticulously resituated the so-called“woman”and“authentic womanhood”as equally constructive and no more essentialist. Furthermore,“queering straight sex”and“straightening out gay sex”as two different but related sex/gender tactics reciprocally problematized the literalization of homosexuality and heterosexuality. Based on the research findings, this essay argues that the somatic material, skin ego, and proprioception of Chen’s preand post-operational body could indicate the exclusivity, limitation, and inflexibility of the mainstream sex/gender matrix. This means that transsexual’s struggling for the authentic being was doomed to be informed at all points by the impossibility and failure of a longing for home, social belonging, and social acceptability. This essay concludes that transsexual as the specific sexual minority, zir sexed embodiment might enact the literal ambivalence of crosssexual identity, an uncatalogued cross-sexual desire, and in-between intermediacy of bodily displacement. The Chen Story and its critical rhetoric performed the critique of domination and that of freedom practically in this seemingly insidious but deployable textual space. |
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