The transgender studies reader

Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle

CRC Press, 2006 - Social Science - 752 pages

Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.

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User Review  - Cole - Goodreads

This collection has incredible span from early (mostly) problematic depictions of transgender identity to contemporary academic articles. The inclusion of historical documents in addition to the ...

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User Review  - Barnabus Smallbeard - Goodreads

no more androgynous naked torsos on covers of books about trans stuff! no, seriously.

Contents

• AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSGENDER STUDIES: 1
• SEX GENDER AND SCIENCE: 19
• SELECTIONS FROM PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONTRARY SEXUAL INSTINCT A MEDICOLEGAL ST...: 21
• SECTIONS FROM THE TRANSVESTITES THE EROTIC DRIVE TO CROSSDRESS: 28
• PSYCHOPATHIA TRANSEXUALIS: 40
• TRANSSEXUALISM AND TRANSVESTISM AS PSYCHOSOMATIC AND SOMATOPSYCHIC SYNDROMES: 45
• SELECTION FROM BIOLOGICAL SUBSTRATES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: 53
• PASSING AND THE MANAGED ACHIEVEMENT OF SEX STATUS IN AN INTERSEXED PERSON: 58
• SELECTION FROM THE ROLE OF GENDER AND THE IMPERATIVE OF SEX: 94
• A CYBORG MANIFESTO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIALISTFEMINISM IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 103
• FEMINIST INVESTMENTS: 119
• SELECTION FROM MOTHER CAMP: 121
• SAPPHO BY SURGERY THE TRANSSEXUALLY CONSTRUCTED LESBIANFEMINIST: 131
• DIVIDED SISTERHOOD A CRITICAL REVIEW OF JANICE RAYMONDS THE TRANSSEXUAL EMPIRE: 144
• A TRANSVESTITE ANSWERS A FEMINIST: 159
• TOWARD A THEORY OF GENDER: 165
• DOING JUSTICE TO SOMEONE SEX REASSIGNMENT AND ALLEGORIES OF TRANSSEXUALITY: 183
• WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? FEMINISM AND TRANS THEORYTWO TEAMS ON THE SAME SIDE?: 194
• QUEERING GENDER: 203
• TRANSGENDER LITERATION A MOVEMENT WHOSE TIME HAS COME: 205
• THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO: 221
• GENDER TERROR GENDER RAGE: 236
• MY WORDS TO VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ABOVE THE VILLAGE OF CHAMOUNIX PERFORMING TRANSGENDER RAGE: 244
• JUDITH BUTLER QUEER FEMINISM TRANSGENDER AND THE TRANSUBSTANTIATION OF SEX: 257
• ARE LESBIANS WOMEN?: 281
• HERMAPHRODITES WITH ATTITUDE MAPPING THE EMERGENCE OF INTERSEX POLITICAL ACTIVISM: 300
• MUTILATING GENDER: 315
• SELVES IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY: 333
• BODY TECHNOLOGY AND GENDER IN TRANSSEXUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: 335
• A FIERCE AND DEMANDING DRIVE: 362
• ONE INC AND REED ERICKSON THE UNEASY COLLABORATION OF GAY AND TRANS ACTIVISM 19642003: 387
• I WENT TO BED WITH MY OWN KIND ONCE THE ERASURE OF DESIRE IN THE NAME OF IDENTITY: 407
• BODIES IN MOTION LESBIAN AND TRANSSEXUAL HISTORIES: 420
• MANLINESS: 434
• SELECTION FROM LESBIANS TALK TRANSGENDER: 439
• GENDER WITHOUT GENITALS HEDWIGS SIX INCHES: 449
• TRANSGENDER MASCULINITIES: 469
• OF CATAMITES AND KINGS REFLECTIONS ON BUTCH GENDER AND BOUNDARIES: 471
• THE LOGIC OF TREATMENT: 482
• LOOK NO DONT THE VISIBILITY DILEMMA FOR TRANSSEXUAL MEN: 499
• QUEERING THE BINARIES TRANSSITUATED IDENTITIES BODIES AND SEXUALITIES: 509
• SELECTIONS FROM SPOILED IDENTITY STEPHEN GORDONS LONELINESS AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF QUEER HISTORY: 521
• TRANSSEXUALS IN THE MILITARY FLIGHT INTO HYPERMASCULINITY: 537
• EMBODIMENT ETHICS IN TIME AND SPACE: 545
• WHAT DOES IT COST TO TELL THE TRUTH?: 547
• TRANSMOGRIFICATION UNBECOMING OTHERS: 552
• FIN DE SIECLE FIN DU SEXE TRANSSEXUALITY POSTMODERNISM AND THE DEATH OF HISTORY: 565
• SKINFLICK POSTHUMAN GENDER IN JONATHAN DEMMES THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: 574
• GENDERBASHING SEXUALITY GENDER AND THE REGULATION OF PUBLIC SPACE: 584
• FROM THE MEDICAL GAZE TO SUBLIME MUTATIONS THE ETHICS OF REVIEWING NONNORMATIVE BODY IMAGES: 601
• FROM FUNCTIONALITY TO AESTHETICS THE ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSGENDER JURISPRUDENCE: 621
• MULTIPLE CROSSINGS GENDER NATIONALITY RACE: 633
• SELECTION FROM THE CHIC OF ARABY TRANSVESTISM AND THE EROTICS OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: 635
• TRANSGENDER THEORY AND EMBODIMENT THE RISK OF RACIAL MARGINALIZATION: 656
• ROMANCING THE TRANSGENDER NATIVE RETHINKING THE USE OF THE THIRD GENDER CONCEPT: 666
• UNSUNG HEROES READING TRANSGENDER SUBJECTIVITIES IN HONG KONG ACTION CINEMA: 685
• WHOSE FEMINISM IS IT ANYWAY? THE UNSPOKEN RACISM OF THE TRANS INCLUSION DEBATE: 698
• TRANSGENDERING THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION: 706
• PERMISSIONS: 721
• SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING: 725
• INDEX: 731

About the author

Susan Stryker is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University. Stephen Whittle is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and coordinator of the United Kingdom FTM Network.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The transgender studies reader; NetLibrary Inc
• Editors: Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: CRC Press, 2006
• ISBN: 041594709X, 9780415947091
• Length: 752 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Gay Studies; Social Science / Gender Studies