Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault : an unreasonable body of work /

"After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost 200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social n...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rudakoff, Judith D., 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Intellect, 2012.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Texts
  • Affirming Identity with Your Friendly Neighbourhood Cyborg
  • Unreal Beauty: Identification and Embodiment in Nina Arsenault's "Self-Portraits"
  • Daughter of the Air: Three Acting Sessions and Nina Arsenault's Imaginary Body
  • Nina, Amber, and the Evolution of a Commodified Sexual Being
  • Sexed Life is a Cabaret: The Body Politics of Nina Arsenault's The Silicone Diaries
  • Chopping at the Sexy Bits: [Trans]cending the Body with Surgical Conundrums
  • Nina Arsenault: Fast Feminist Objet a
  • The Artist as Complication: Nina Arsenault and the Morality of Beauty
  • Landscape with Yukon and Unnatural Beauty
  • Performing the Prosthetics of Femininity: Nina Arsenault's Transsexual Body as a Living Art Object
  • Compelling Honesty: Searching for Authenticity in the Voice of Nina Arsenault
  • Live in Your Blood: A Fragmentary Response to Nina Arsenault's Holy Theatre and Spiritual Gift
  • St. Nina and the Abstract Machine: Aesthetics, Ontology, Immanence
  • Part II. The Silicone Diaries
  • The Silicone Diaries: Director's Note
  • The Silicone Diaries
  • Part III. The Photographs.