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Much science fiction and fantasy of recent years deals with changing sex. But it treats it as a trope rather than a process: ''[[Larque on the Wing]]'', ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'', "Changes," the work of [[John Varley]]. While there is no denying the usefulness of transsexuality as a trope in discussing the social construction of gender, what are we missing by eliding transsexuality's nature as a process?
Much science fiction and fantasy of recent years deals with changing sex. But it treats it as a trope rather than a process: ''[[Larque on the Wing]]'', ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'', "Changes," the work of [[John Varley]]. While there is no denying the usefulness of transsexuality as a trope in discussing the social construction of gender, what are we missing by eliding transsexuality's nature as a process?


M: [[Lyda Morehouse]], [[Charlie Anders]], [[Elizabeth Bear]], [[BC Holmes]], [[Jennifer Pelland]]
M: [[Lyda Morehouse]], [[Charlie Anders]], [[Elizabeth Bear]], [[B. C. Holmes]], [[Jennifer Pelland]]


==Panel reports, notes, transcripts==
==Panel reports, notes, transcripts==
* http://epi-lj.livejournal.com/1576443.html
* http://epi-lj.livejournal.com/1576443.html
* [http://bcholmes.livejournal.com/297759.html B.C. Holmes LJ]
* [http://bcholmes.livejournal.com/297759.html B.C. Holmes LJ]
* [http://bcholmes.livejournal.com/298598.html more BC]
* [http://charliegrrrl.livejournal.com/153006.html Charlie]


[[Category:WisCon 31 panels]]
[[Category:WisCon 31 panels]]

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132 Transsexuality as Trope

Feminism, Sex, and Gender•Assembly• Sunday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.

Much science fiction and fantasy of recent years deals with changing sex. But it treats it as a trope rather than a process: Larque on the Wing, I Will Fear No Evil, "Changes," the work of John Varley. While there is no denying the usefulness of transsexuality as a trope in discussing the social construction of gender, what are we missing by eliding transsexuality's nature as a process?

M: Lyda Morehouse, Charlie Anders, Elizabeth Bear, B. C. Holmes, Jennifer Pelland

Panel reports, notes, transcripts