Acknowledgements
Introduction - Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O'Rourke
1. Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing
(Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context - Noah
Zazanis (reproductive health research assistant, New York)
2. Trans Work: Employment Trajectories, Labour Discipline and
Gender Freedom - Michelle O'Brien (New York University)
3. Judith Butler's Scientific Revolution: Foundations for a
Transsexual Marxism - Rosa Lee (editor at Viewpoint Magazine)
4. How Do Gender Transitions Happen? - Jules Joanne Gleeson
5. A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social
Reproduction - Nat Raha (University of Sussex)
6. Notes from Brazil - Virginia Guitzel (philosophy student,
Federal University of ABC)
7. Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender
Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Formation - Kate Doyle
Griffiths (lecturer, Brooklyn College and editor of Spectre
Journal)
8. The Bridge between Gender and Organizing - Farah Thompson
(Black, bisexual trans woman who does tech while living in San
Diego)
9. Encounters in Lancaster - JN Hoad (DIY transsexual in the North
West of the UK)
10. Transgender and Disabled Bodies - Between Pain and the
Imaginary - Zoe Belinsky (independent scholar)
11. A Dialogue on Deleuze and Gender Difference - The
Conspiratorial Association for the Advancement of Cultural
Degeneracy (Cultural Degeneracy and Sacrilege - a pseudonymous
dialogue between friends)
12. Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology - Nathaniel
Dickson (PhD candidate, University at Bufflalo)
13. 'Why Are We Like This?' The Primacy of Transsexuality - Xandra
Metcalfe (psychoanalytic communist and noise artist based in
Melbourne)
14. Cosmos Against Nature in the Class Struggle of Proletarian
Trans Women - Anja Heisler Weiser Flower (artist living in San
Francisco)
Afterword: One Utopia, One Dystopia - Jordy Rosenberg (Associate
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Jules Joanne Gleeson is a writer, comedian and historian. She has
published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine, Invert
Journal and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide
range of communist and queer cultural events.
Elle O’Rourke is a political economist and gender theorist
currently researching critical theories of financialisation. She is
co-founder of New Socialist, a magazine of left thought and
commentary, where she serves as economics co-editor.
Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the acclaimed novel Confessions of
the Fox (Atlantic Books, 2019).
'A terrific collection of essays - I couldn't put it down'
*Kathi Weeks, author of 'The Problem with Work' (Duke UP,
2011)*
'A vibrant and much needed collection - not just for trans people -
but the left in general'
*Shon Faye, author of 'The Transgender Issue' (Penguin, 2021)*
'Stunning ... trans becomes in these pages the vibrant event of a
historical materialism from below, intimate and urgent'
*Jules Gill-Peterson, author of 'Histories of the Transgender
Child' (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)*
'Powerful ... with stunning sophistication and insights,
'Transgender Marxism' challenges capitalism's social foundations in
gendered patterns of property, work, and entitlement to develop new
forms of sociality beyond the family and its dyadic sexual
division'
*Petrus Liu, author of 'Queer Marxism in Two Chinas' (Duke
University Press, 2015)*
'Brilliant, thoughtfully researched, and compelling. An immense
contribution to the trans liberation struggle and to trans studies
scholarship'
*Dean Spade, Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University
School of Law*
'Is there a transgender Marxism? This pioneering collection shows
that the answer is there are many - inspired by psychoanalysis,
union organizing, queer communities, Black struggles and more.
Material realities matter, tremendously, in trans lives; and trans
experiences can change our thinking about both capitalism and
liberation'
*Raewyn Connell, author of 'Gender: In World Perspective' (Polity,
2020)*
‘A powerful contribution to the legacy of a Marx’
*‘Anti-Capitalist Resistance’*
‘This book provides the stepping-stones towards that much-needed
Marxism, finally acknowledging the material realities and best
strategies for all working class, oppressed trans people
globally’
*‘Ebb magazine’*
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