Introduction: Transgender Studies 2.0
I. Transgender Perspectives In (and On) Radical
Political Economy1. Normalized Transgressions:
Legitimizing the Transsexual Body as Productive
Dan Irving2. Retelling Racialized Violence, Remaking White
Innocence: The Politics of Interlocking Oppressions in Transgender
Day of Remembrance
Sarah Lamble3. Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility:
Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11
Toby Beauchamp4. Tracing This Body: Transsexuality, Pharmaceuticals
& Capitalism
Michelle O’Brien5. Transsexual Necropolitics
Jin Haritaworn and C. Riley Snorton
II. Making Trans-Culture(s): Texts, Performances,
Artifacts6. “The White To Be Angry”: Vaginal Creme Davis’
Terrorist Drag
Jose Esteban Muñoz7. Felt Matters
Jeanne Vaccaro8. Groping Theory: Haptic Cinema and Trans-Curiosity
in Hans Scheirl’s Dandy Dust
Eliza Steinbock9. The Transgender Look
J. Halberstam10. Embracing Transition, or Dancing in the Folds of
Time
Julian Carter
III. Transsexing Humanimality11. Selections
from Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in
Nature and People
Joan Roughgarden12. Animal Transsex
Myra Hird13. Animals Without Genitals: Race and
Transsubstantiation
Mel Chen 14. Lessons from a Starfish
Eva Hayward15. Interdependent Ecological Transsex: Notes on
Re/Production, “Transgender” Fish, and the Management of
Populations, Species, and Resources
Bailey Keir
IV. Transfeminisms16. Feminist Solidarity After
Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender
Cressida Heyes17. Inclusive Pedagogy in the Women’s Studies
Classroom: Teaching the Kimberly Nixon Case
Viviane Namaste (with Georgia Sitara)18. Skirt Chasers: Why the
Media Depicts the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels
Julia Serano19. The Education of Little Cis: Cisgender and the
Discipline of Opposing Bodies
A. Finn Enke20. Our Bodies Are Not Ourselves: Tranny Guys and the
Racialized Class Politics of Incoherence
Bobby Noble
V. Cross Talk: Contention and Complexity in
Trans-Discourses21. Body Shame, Body Pride: Lessons From
the Disability Rights Movement
Eli Clare22. The Pharmaco-Pornographic Regime: Sex, Gender, and
Subjectivity in the Age of Punk Capitalism
Beatriz Preciado23. Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On
Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion
Talia Mae Bettcher24. “Still At the Back of the Bus”: Sylvia
Rivera’s Struggle
Jessi Gan25. Transgender Subjectivity and the Logic of Sexual
Difference
Shanna Carlson
VI. Timely Matters: Temporality and
Trans-historicity 26. Towards A Transgender Archaeology: A
Queer Rampage Through Prehistory
Mary Weismantel27. Selections from “Before the Tribade: Medieval
Anatomies of Female Masculinity and Pleasure”
Karma Lochrie28. Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish
California
Deborah A. Miranda29. Before Transgender: Transvestia’s Gender
Spectrum, 1960-1980
Robert Hill30. Reading Transsexuality in “Gay” Tehran (Around
1979)
Afsaneh Najmabadi
VII. Being There: The (Im)material Locations of
Trans-Phenomena31. Between Surveillance and Liberation:
The Lives of Cross-Dressed Male Sex Workers in Early Postwar
Japan
Todd Henry32. An Ethics of Transsexual Difference: Luce Irigaray
and the Place of Sexual Undecideability
Gayle Salamon33. Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic
Imagination
Sheila Cavanaugh34. Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality, and
Participation in “Loca-Lization”
Marcia Ochoa35. Thinking Figurations Otherwise: Reframing Dominant
Knowledges of Sex and Gender Variance in Latin America
Vek Lewis
VIII. Going Somewhere: Transgender
Movement(s)36. Transgender Without Organs? Mobilizing a
Geo-affective Theory of Gender Modification
Lucas Crawford 37. Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in
Motion
Don Romesberg38. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Affect
and Labor in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics
Aren Z. Aizura39. Trans/scriptions: Homing Desires, (Trans)sexual
Citizenship and Racialized Bodies
Nael Bhanji40. Transportation: Translating
Filipino/Filipino-American Tomboy Masculinities Through Seafaring
and Migration
Kale Fajardo
IX. Biopolitics and the Administration of
Trans-Embodiment(s)41. Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are
Sexy): The Transsexual Whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the
(Post)Colonial Philippines
Susan Stryker 42. Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak
Show Displays in Nineteenth- Century San Francisco
Clare Sears 43. Shuttling Between Bodies and Borders:
Transmigration and the Politics of Rightful Killing
Sima Shakhsari44. Silhouettes of Defiance: the memorialization of
historical sites of queer and transgender resistance in an age of
neoliberal inclusivity
Che Gossett45. Neutering the Transgendered: Human Rights and
Japan’s Law No. 111
Laura Norton
X. Trans-oriented Practices, Policies, and Social
Change46. “We Won't Know Who You Are”: Contesting Sex
Designations in New York City Birth Certificates
Paisley Currah and Lisa Jean Moore47. Reinscribing Normality: The
Politics of Transgender Marriage
Ruthann Robson48. Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture and
the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit
Marlon Bailey49. Transgender as Mental Illness: Nosology, Social
Justice, and the Tarnished Golden Mean
Nick Gorton50. Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with
Everything We’ve Got
Dean Spade, Morgan Bassichis and Alex Lee
Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona.
Aren Z. Aizura is Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Research on Women and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
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