Repository | Book
New York University Press, New York
2018
192 Pages
ISBN 9781479849215
The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on the resources offeminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and dehumanizing act.
Publication details
Full citation:
Salamon, G. (2018). The life and death of Latisha King: a critical phenomenology of transphobia, New York University Press, New York.
Table of Contents
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.