Authors: Susan Stryker (Editor), Stephen Whittle, Stephen Whittle
ISBN-13: 9780415947091, ISBN-10: 041594709X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
"Unsung Heroes: Reading Transgender Subjectivities in Hong Kong Action Cinema." Copyright (c) 2004-5 by Helen Hok-Sze Leung. Reprinted from Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema. Eds. Laikwan Pang and Day Wong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. 81-98.
(De)subjugated knowledges : an introduction to transgender studies | 1 | |
I | Sex, gender, and science | 19 |
1 | Selections from psychopathia sexualis with special reference to contrary sexual instinct : a medico-legal study | 21 |
2 | Selections from the transvestites : the erotic drive to cross-dress | 28 |
3 | Psychopathia transexualis | 40 |
4 | Transsexualism and transvestism as psycho-somatic and somato-psychic syndromes | 45 |
5 | Selection from biological substrates of sexual behavior | 53 |
6 | Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an "intersexed" person | 58 |
7 | Selection from the role of gender and the imperative of sex | 94 |
8 | A Cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century | 103 |
II | Feminist investments | 119 |
9 | Selection from mother camp | 121 |
10 | Sappho by surgery : the transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist | 131 |
11 | Divided sisterhood : a critical review of Janice Raymond's the transsexual empire | 144 |
12 | A transvestite answers a feminist | 159 |
13 | Toward a theory of gender | 165 |
14 | Doing justice to someone : sex reassignment and allegories of transsexuality | 183 |
15 | Where did we go wrong? : feminism and trans theory - two teams on the same side? | 194 |
III | Queering gender | 203 |
16 | Transgender liberation : a movement whose time has come | 205 |
17 | The empire strikes back : a posttranssexual manifesto | 221 |
18 | Gender terror, gender rage | 236 |
19 | My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix : performing transgender rage | 244 |
20 | Judith Butler : queer feminism, transgender, and the transubstantiation of sex | 257 |
21 | Are lesbians women? | 281 |
22 | Hermaphrodites with attitude : mapping the emergence of intersex political activism | 300 |
23 | Mutilating gender | 315 |
IV | Selves : identity and community | 333 |
24 | Body, technology, and gender in transsexual autobiographies | 335 |
25 | A "fierce and demanding" drive | 362 |
26 | ONE Inc. and Reed Erickson : the uneasy collaboration of gay and trans activism, 1964-2003 | 387 |
27 | "I went to bed with my own kind once" : the erasure of desire in the name of identity | 407 |
28 | Bodies in motion : lesbian and transsexual histories | 420 |
29 | Manliness | 434 |
30 | Selection from lesbians talk transgender | 439 |
31 | Gender without genitals : Hedwig's six inches | 449 |
V | Transgender masculinities | 469 |
32 | Of catamites and kings : reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries | 471 |
33 | The logic of treatment | 482 |
34 | Look! No, don't! : the visibility dilemma for transsexual men | 499 |
35 | Queering the binaries : transsituated identities, bodies, and sexualities | 509 |
36 | Selections from "spoiled identity" : Stephen Gordon's loneliness and the difficulties of queer history | 521 |
37 | Transsexuals in the military : flight into hypermasculinity | 537 |
VI | Embodiment : ethics in time and space | 545 |
38 | What does it cost to tell the truth? | 547 |
39 | Transmogrification : (Un)becoming other(s) | 552 |
40 | Fin de siecle, Fin du sexe : transsexuality, postmodernism, and the death of history | 565 |
41 | Skinflick : posthuman gender in Jonathan Demme's the silence of the lambs | 574 |
42 | Genderbashing : sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space | 584 |
43 | From the medical gaze to sublime mutations : the ethics of (re)viewing non-normative body images | 601 |
44 | From functionality to aesthetics : the architecture of transgender jurisprudence | 621 |
VII | Multiple crossings : gender, nationality, race | 633 |
45 | Selections prom the chic of Araby : transvestism and the erotics of cultural appropriation | 635 |
46 | Transgender theory and embodiment : the risk of racial marginalization | 656 |
47 | Romancing the transgender native : rethinking the use of the "third gender" concept | 666 |
48 | Unsung heroes : reading transgender subjectivities in Hong Kong action cinema | 685 |
49 | Whose feminism is it anyway? : the unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate | 698 |
50 | Transgendering the politics of recognition | 706 |