Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities

Editors: Martinez-San Miguel, Yolanda and Tobias, Sarah
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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ISBN: 978-0-8135-7641-1
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Book Status: Available
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Trans Studies is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. Taking an intersectional approach, this theoretically sophisticated book deeply grounded in real-world concerns bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Thinking beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities - YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ-SAN MIGUEL AND SARAH TOBIAS
  • PART I: GENDER BOUNDARIES WITHIN EDUCATIONAL SPACES
  • 1 Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus - GENNY BEEMYN AND SUSAN R. RANKIN
  • 2 Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education - PAULINE PARK
  • PART II: TRANS IMAGINARIES
  • 3 “I'll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I'm queer”: Samuel Beckett's Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change - LUCAS CRAWFORD
  • 4 Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican - KEJA VALENS
  • 5 TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy - JIAN CHEN
  • PART III: CROSSING BORDERS/ CROSSING GENDER
  • 6 When Things Don't Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics - TOBY BEAUCHAMP
  • 7 Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women's Survival - NORA BUTLER BURKE
  • 8 Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression - AREN Z. AIZURA
  • PART IV: TRANS ACTIVISM AND POLICY
  • 9 The T in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Québec (Canada)? - MICKAEL CHACHA ENRIQUEZ
  • 10 Translatina Is about the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco - ALEXANDRA RODRÍGUEZ DE RUÍZ AND MARCIA OCHOA
  • 11 LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy - JODY L. HERMAN
  • PART V: TRANSFORMING DISCIPLINES AND PEDAGOGY
  • 12 Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes - SEL J. HWAHNG
  • 13 Stick Figures and Little Bits: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy - A. FINN ENKE
  • Conclusion: Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination - YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ-SAN MIGUEL AND SARAH TOBIAS
  • Notes on Contributors