The transgender studies reader 2

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: transgender studies 2.0

Transgender perspectives in (and on) radical political economy

Normalized transgressions : legitimizing the transsexual body as productive / Dan Irving

Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence : the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance / Sarah Lamble

Artful concealment and strategic visibility : transgender bodies and U.S. state surveillance after 9/11 / Toby Beauchamp

Tracing this body : transsexuality, pharmaceuticals & capitalism / Michelle O'Brien

Transsexual necropolitics / Jin Haritaworn and C. Riley Snorton

Making trans-culture(s) : texts, performances, artifacts

"The white to be angry" : vaginal creme Davis' terrorist drag / Jose Esteban Muñoz

Felt matters / Jeanne Vaccaro

Groping theory : haptic cinema and trans-curiosity in Hans Scheirl's dandy dust / Eliza Steinbock

The transgender look / J. Halberstam

Embracing transition, or dancing in the folds of time / Julian Carter

Transsexing humanimality

Selections from evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people / Joan Roughgarden

Animal transsex / Myra Hird

Animals without genitals : race and transsubstantiation / Mel Chen

Lessons from a starfish / Eva Hayward

Interdependent ecological transsex : notes on re/production, "transgender" fish, and the management of populations, species, and resources / Bailey Keir

Transfeminisms

Feminist solidarity after queer theory : the case of transgender / Cressida Heyes

Inclusive pedagogy in the women's studies classroom : teaching the Kimberly Nixon case / Viviane Namaste (with Georgia Sitara)

Skirt chasers : why the media depicts the trans revolution in lipstick and heels / Julia Serano

The education of little cis : cisgender and the discipline of opposing bodies / A. Finn Enke

Our bodies are not ourselves : tranny guys and the racialized class politics of incoherence / Bobby Noble

Cross talk : contention and complexity in trans-discourses

Body shame, body pride : lessons from the disability rights movement / Eli Clare

The pharmaco-pornographic regime : sex, gender, and subjectivity in the age of punk capitalism / Beatriz Preciado

Evil deceivers and make-believers : on transphobic violence and the politics of illusion / Talia Mae Bettcher

"Still at the back of the bus" : Sylvia Rivera's struggle / Jessi Gan

Transgender subjectivity and the logic of sexual difference / Shanna Carlson

Timely matters : temporality and trans-historicity

Towards a transgender archaeology : a queer rampage through prehistory / Mary Weismantel

Selections from "before the tribade : medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure" / Karma Lochrie

Extermination of the joyas : gendercide in Spanish California / Deborah A. Miranda

Before transgender : transvestia's gender spectrum, 1960-1980 / Robert Hill

Reading transsexuality in "gay" Tehran (around 1979) / Afsaneh Najmabadi

Being there : the (im)material locations of trans-phenomena

Between surveillance and liberation : the lives of cross-dressed male sex workers in early postwar Japan / Todd Henry

An ethics of transsexual difference : luce irigaray and the place of sexual undecideability / Gayle Salamon

Touching gender : abjection and the hygienic imagination / Sheila Cavanaugh

Perverse citizenship : divas, marginality, and participation in "loca-lization" / Marcia Ochoa

Thinking figurations otherwise : reframing dominant knowledges of sex and gender variance in Latin America / Vek Lewis

Going somewhere : transgender movement(s)

Transgender without organs? : mobilizing a geo-affective theory of gender modification / Lucas Crawford

Longevity and limits in Rae Bourbon's life in motion / Don Romesberg

The romance of the amazing scalpel : race, affect and labor in thai gender reassignment clinics / Aren Z. Aizura

Trans/scriptions : homing desires, (trans)sexual citizenship and racialized bodies / Nael Bhanji

Transportation : translating Filipino/Filipino-American tomboy masculinities through seafaring and migration / Kale Fajardo

Biopolitics and the administration of trans-embodiment(s)

Kaming mga talyada (we who are sexy) : the transsexual whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the (post)colonial Philippines / Susan Stryker

Electric brilliancy : cross-dressing law and freak show displays in nineteenth-century San Francisco / Clare Sears

Shuttling between bodies and borders : transmigration and the politics of rightful killing / Sima Shakhsari

Silhouettes of defiance : the memorialization of historical sites of queer and transgender resistance in an age of neoliberal inclusivity / Che Gossett

Neutering the transgendered : human rights and Japan's Law No. 111 / Laura Norton

Trans-oriented practices, policies, and social change

"We won't know who you are" : contesting sex designations in New York City birth certificates / Paisley Currah and Lisa Jean Moore

Reinscribing normality : the politics of transgender marriage / Ruthann Robson

Performance as intravention : ballroom culture and the politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit / Marlon Bailey

Transgender as mental illness : nosology, social justice, and the tarnished golden mean / Nick Gorton

Building an abolitionist trans & queer movement with everything we've got / Dean Spade, Morgan Bassichis and Alex Lee

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