Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment

Aren Z. Aizura

Published by Duke University Press 2018

Mobile Subjects

Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment

Aren Z. Aizura

In the series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478002642

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About this book

Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives about traveling for gender reassignment from 1952 to the present, showing how transgender fantasies about reinvention and mobility are racialized as white and often rely on violent colonial global divisions.

Author / Editor information

Aren Z. Aizura is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader 2.

Reviews

"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals."

-- N. B. Rosenthal Choice

"Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place."

-- Emmanuel David TSQ

"[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today."

-- Muriel Vernon Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study."

-- Jacob Barry Journal of Critical Race Inquiry

“Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...."

-- Lars Olav Aaberg newbooks.asia

“... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.”

-- K.S. Shindle Catalyst

“Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....”

-- Isaac Gagné American Ethnologist

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION. Provincializing Trans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I
ONE. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
TWO. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
THREE. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
PART II
INTERLUDE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
FOUR. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
FIVE. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
EPILOGUE. Visions of Trans Worlding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 5 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 25, 2018
ISBN: 9781478002642