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Dr. Viviane Namaste is a feminist scholar, author, researcher and professor, whose work focuses on health and transsexualism, more specifically HIV/AIDS and being seropositive. Namaste's research focuses on health, sex work, transsexuality, transgenderism, bisexuality, and swinger communities. She has commented that research that maintains the gender binary can exclude communities.〔 Her research examines the involvement of public health in HIV prevention among swinger groups in Montreal.〔 Namaste has been noted for criticizing Judith Butler in her work ''Undoing Gender'' by discussing how transsexuality intersects someone's identity and how it attributes to the treatment of transsexuals and more specifically their murder.〔 Namaste, Viviane. 2009. "Undoing Theory: The "Transgender Question" and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory." Hypatia 24 (3):pp. 11-32〕 The feminist journal, ''Hypatia'', has called Namaste's work, "extremely important" because she "excels at focusing readers' attention on the most marginalized of transsexuals, at analyzing the ways in which different systems of oppression work together."〔 Namaste considers activism more important than work within the humanities. ==Biography== Namaste graduated from Carleton University in 1989 with a BA and continued her education at York University, earning an MA in Sociology. She then completed her doctoral at Université du Québec à Montréal in Semiotics and Linguistics. She worked within CACTUS-Montreal, an organization that provides a community-based health project sensitive to Trans * needs and those struggling with drug dependency or practicing unsafe sex, and ACT UP Paris.〔 In 2001, she received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for her book entitled, ''Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People''. That same year, Namaste was also a director in the documentary ''Madame Lauraine's Transexual Touch'' which deals with transsexual sex workers as well as sexual health and clientele. She joined the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SDBI) in 2002 as a full-time faculty member and in 2006 took over as principal of SDBI. By 2009, Namaste was an associate professor and the Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.〔 In 2009, she was awarded the "Canadian Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights", which is awarded jointly by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch. In 2012, Namaste led a strike with SDBI faculty in order to protest tuition increases. In 2013, she was called as an official intervenor in a hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada on whether the ban on solicitation, prohibition of brothelss and criminality of making a living from prostitution violate the Charter of Rights. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Viviane Namaste」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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