Overview

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. 

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Author:   Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel ,  Sarah Tobias ,  Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel ,  Sarah Tobias
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780813576411

ISBN 10:   0813576415
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   22 March 2016
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  Introduction      Thinking beyond Hetero/Homonormativities             Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias  Part I                 Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces  Chapter 1         Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus             Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin  Chapter 2        Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education             Pauline Park  Part II                 Trans Imaginaries  Chapter 3         “I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer”: Samuel Beckett’s Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change             Lucas Crawford  Chapter 4         Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican             Keja Valens  Chapter 5         TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy             Jian Chen  Part III                 Crossing Borders/Crossing Gender  Chapter 6         When Things Don’t Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics             Toby Beauchamp  Chapter 7         Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women’s Survival             Nora Butler Burke  Chapter 8         Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression             Aren Z. Aizura  Part IV                Trans Activism and Policy  Chapter 9         The “T” in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Quebec (Canada)?             Mickael Chacha Enriquez  Chapter 10       Translatina Is About the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco             Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruíz and Marcia Ochoa  Chapter 11       LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy             Jody L. Herman  Part V                Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy  Chapter 12      Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes             Sel J. Hwahng  Chapter 13      Stick Figures and Pronouns: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy             A. Finn Enke  Conclusion      Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination             Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias Notes on Contributors              Index 

Reviews

A vital addition to the field of trans studies.Martinez-San Miguel and Tobiashave 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

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

Author 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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