Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities

Published by Rutgers University Press 2016

Trans Studies

The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities

Edited by: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias
With contributions by: Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel , Sarah Tobias , Genny Beemyn , Susan R. Rankin , Pauline Park , Lucas Crawford , Valens Keja , Jian Chen , Toby Beauchamp , Nora Butler Burke , Aren Z. Aizura , Mickael Chacha Enriquez , Alexandra Rodriguez de Ruiz , Marcia Ochoa , Jody L. Herman , Sel J. Hwahng and A. Finn Enke

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813576435

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About this book

Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms.

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.

Author / Editor information

YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ-SAN MIGUEL is a professor of Latino studies and comparative literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of several books including From Lack to Excess: ‘Minor’ Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context.

SARAH TOBIAS is the associate director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, where she serves as affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous publications, including the book Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families.

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Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

— Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

"A vital addition to the field of trans studies. Martínez-San Miguel and Tobias have curated a collection of rich new scholarship located in the spaces between trans, feminist, and queer studies."

— Paisley Currah, coeditor of Transgender Rights and co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly

"A valuable contribution to the field … Trans Studies is an informative and stimulating read."

— Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

"Trans Studies brings together some of the most challenging and compelling recent work in the field of transgender studies. The collection includes voices from inside and outside the academy, and it makes activists' contributions central. The fact of this diversity makes the project extremely vibrant: it will have a broad appeal across disciplines and for activists and community members as well."

— Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania

"This welcome new anthology brings into sharp focus one of the most productive contributions the field of trans studies has made to scholarship on sexuality and gender: revealing the extent to which dominant, naturalized constructions of the relationship between sexed embodiment and gendered subjectivity traverse not only the heteronormative world, but also much of feminism, queer theory, and other fields that study the creation of social hierarchy from bodily difference. Addressing such diverse topics as educational activism, policy reform, surveillance technologies, cinema, theater, narrative arts, migration, and social movements, Trans Studies ably demonstrates that the field it surveys has indeed arrived as an important new lens for understanding, interpreting and appreciating a wide range of human diversities."

— Susan Stryker, coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader v. 1 & 2 and Co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Thinking beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces
1. Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education Pauline Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Part II: Trans Imaginaries
3. “I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer”: Samuel Beckett’s Spatial Aesthetic Lucas Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican Keja Valens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
5. TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy Jian Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part III: Crossing Borders / Crossing Gender
6. When Things Don’t Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics Toby Beauchamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
7. Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women’s Survival Nora Butler Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
8. Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression Aren Z. Aizura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
10. Translatina Is about the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruíz and Marcia Ochoa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
11. LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy Jody L. Herman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Part V: Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy
12. Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes Sel J. Hwahng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
13. Stick Figures and Little Bits: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy A. Finn Enke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Conclusion: Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 270
Illustrations
- Other: 5 tables
Keywords: lgbt; lgbtq; queer; queerness; gay; lesbian; trans; transgender; gender; feminist; sexuality; heteronormative; activist; activism; public policy; gender studies; women; women's studies

eBook

Published: March 22, 2016
ISBN: 9780813576435