Viviane K. Namaste is a Canadian feminist professor at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research focuses on sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and sex work.[1]
Education and work
Namaste received a Bachelors of Arts from Carleton University in 1989, an MA in Sociology from York University, and a doctoral degree from Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics.[2][3] She worked within ACT UP Paris.[3] In 2001, she received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for her book titled, Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People.[4] That same year, Namaste was also a director in the documentary Madame Lauraine's Transsexual Touch which deals with transsexual sex workers as well as sexual health and clientele.[5]
Namaste became an associate professor and the Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] In 2009, she received the "Canadian Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights", awarded jointly by the HIV Legal Network and Human Rights Watch.[6]
In 2013, she was called as an official intervenor in a hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada[7] on whether the ban on solicitation, prohibition of brothels and criminality of making a living from prostitution violates the Charter of Rights.[8]
The feminist journal, Hypatia, has called Namaste's work, "extremely important".[9]
Bibliography[10]
- 2000 · Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People
- 2005 · Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism
- 2005 · C'était du spectacle! L'histoire des artistes transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955–1985
- 2012 · HIV Prevention and Bisexual Realities
- 2015 · Oversight
- 2017 · Imprimés interdits: La censure des journaux jaunes au Québec, 1955–1975
- 2019 · Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science
- 2019 · Savoirs créoles: Leçons du sida pour l'histoire de Montréal
References
Further reading
- Brandt, Keri Jacqueline (2003). "Book Review: Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. By Viviane K. Namaste. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections and Essays. By John C. Hawley (Ed.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001". Qualitative Sociology. 26 (1): 137–143. doi:10.1023/A:1021416423075. S2CID 141328153.
- Elliot, Patricia (2012). Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory: Contested Sites. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4094-9279-5.
- Johnson, Katherine (2011). "Transgender, Transsexualism, and the Queering of Gender Identities: Debates for Feminist Research". In Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (ed.). Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. SAGE Publications. pp. 606–626. ISBN 978-1-4833-4145-3.