The transgender studies reader
By: edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle.
Contributors: Stryker, Susan.; Whittle, Stephen, 1955-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780415947084; 9780415947091
Subjects: Transsexualism; Transvestism; Transsexuals; Transvestites
Description: From the Publisher: Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history stretching back at least to the early 20th century. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 725-729) and index.
Table of contents: title: Selections from Psychopathia sexualis with special reference to contrary sexual  Instinct / Richard von Kraft-Ebing; title: Selections from The transvestites: the erotic drive to cross-dress / Magnus Hirschfeld; title: Psychopathia transexualis / David O. Cauldwell; title: Transsexualism and transvestism as psycho-somatic and somato-psychic syndromes / Harry Benjamin; title: Selection from Biological substrates of sexual behavior / Robert Stoller; title: Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an $1! @(Bintersexed$1 (B person / Harold Garfinkel; title: Selection from The role of gender and the imperative of sex / Charles Sheperdson; title: A manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna Haraway; title: Selections from Mother camp / Esther Newton; title: Sappho by surgery: the transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist / Janice Raymond; title: Divided sisterhood: a critical review of Janice Raymond$1 (Bs The transsexual empire / Carol Riddell; title: A transvestite answers a feminist / Lou Sullivan; title: Toward a theory of gender / Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna; title: Doing justice to someone: sex reassignment and allegories of transsexuality / Judith Butler; title: Where did we go wrong? Feminism and trans theory: Two Teams on the Same Side? / Stephen Whittle; title: Transgender liberation: a movement whose time has come / Leslie Feinberg; title: The empire strikes back: a posttranssexual manifesto / Sandy Stone; title: Gender terror,  gender rage / Kate Bornstein; title: My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: performing transgender rage / Susan Stryker; title: Judith Butler: queer feminism, transgender, and the transsubstantiation of sex / Jay Prosser; title: Are lesbians women? / Jacob Hale; title: Hermaphrodites with attitude: mapping the emergence of intersex political activism / Cheryl Chase; title: Mutilating gender / Dean Spade.; title: Body, technology, and gender in transsexual autobiography / Bernice Hausman; title: A “fierce and demanding  drive / Joanne Meyerowitz; title: ONE Inc., and Reed Erickson: the uneasy collaboration of gay and trans activism, 1964-2003 / Aaron Devor and Nicholas Matte; title: “I went to bed with my own kind once : the erasure of desire in name of identity / David Valentine; title: Bodies in motion: lesbian and transsexual histories / Nan Alamilla Boyd; title: Manliness / Patrick Califia-Rice; title: Selection from Lesbians talk transgender / Zachary I. Nataf; title: Gender without genitals: Hedwig’s six inches / Jordy Jones; title: Catamites and kings: reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries / Gayle Rubin; title: The logic of treatment / Henry Rubin; title: Look! No don’t! The visibility dilemma for transsexual men / Jamison Green; title: Queering the binaries: transsituated identities, bodies, and sexualities / Jason Cromwell; title: “Spoiled Identity : Stephen Gordon’s loneliness and the difficulties of doing  queer history / Heather Love; title: Transsexuals in the military: flight into hypermasculinity / George Brown; title: What does it cost to tell the truth? / Rikki Anne Wilchins; title: Transmogrification: (un)becoming other(s) / Nikki Sullivan; title: Fin de siècle, fin du sexe: transsexualism, postmodernism, and the death of  history / Rita Felski; title: Skin-flick: posthuman gender in Jonathan Demme’s The silence of the lambs / Judith Halberstam; title: Genderbashing: sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space / Viviane K. Namaste; title: From the medical gaze to sublime mutations: re-viewing non-standard bodies / Ben Singer; title: From functionality to aesthetics: the architecture of transgender jurisprudence / Andrew Sharpe; title: The chic of Araby: transvestism and the erotics of cultural appropriation / Marjorie Garber; title: Transgender theory and embodiment: the risk of racial marginalization / Katrina Roen; title: Romancing the transgender native: rethinking the use of the “third gender  concept / Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan; title: Unsung heroes: reading transgender subjectivities in Hong Kong action cinema / Helen Hok-Sze Leung; title: Whose feminism is it anyway? The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate / Emi Koyama; title: Transgendering the politics of recognition / Richard Juang.