Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

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Overview

Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Transgender Nonfiction, 2013

If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies suggest timely and necessary changes for institutions of higher learning.

Responding to the more visible presence of transgender persons as well as gender theories, the contributing essayists focus on how gender is practiced in academia, health care, social services, and even national border patrols. Working from the premise that transgender is both material and cultural, the contributors address such aspects of the university as administration, sports, curriculum, pedagogy, and the appropriate location for transgender studies.

Combining feminist theory, transgender studies, and activism centered on social diversity and justice, these essays examine how institutions as lived contexts shape everyday life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439907481
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 05/04/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 268
Sales rank: 868,901
File size: 604 KB

About the Author

Anne Enke (now Finn Enke )is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBT Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Transfeminist Perspectives - A. Finn Enke Note on Terms and Concepts - A. Finn Enke Part I: “This Much Knowledge”: Flexible Epistemologies 1. Gender/Sovereignty - Vic Muñoz 2. “Do These Earrings Make Me Look Dumb?” : Diversity, Privilege, and Heteronormative Perceptions of Competence within the Academy - Kate Forbes 3. Trans. Panic. Some Thoughts toward a Theory of Feminist Fundamentalism - Bobby Noble 4. The Education of Little Cis: Cisgender and the Discipline of Opposing Bodies - A. Finn Enke Part II: Categorical Insufficiencies and “Impossible People” 5. College Transitions: Recommended Policies for TransStudents and Employees - Clark A. Pomerleau 6. “Ain’t I a Woman?” Transgender and Intersex Student Athletes in Women’s Collegiate Sports - Pat Griffin 7. Training Disservice: The Productive Potential and Structural Limitations of Health as a Terrain for Trans Activism - Christoph Hanssmann 8. Transnational Transgender Rights and Immigration Law - Aren Z. Aizura Part III: Valuing Subjects: Toward Unexpected Alliances 9. Elusive Subjects: Notes on the Relationship between Critical Political Economy and Trans Studies - Dan Irving 10. Reclaiming Femininity - Julia Serano 11. What’s Wrong with Trans Rights? - Dean Spade 12. When Something Is Not Right - Ryka Aoki Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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