About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction (De)Subjugated Knowledges; Part I Sex, Gender, and Science; Chapter 1 selections from Psychopathia Sexualis with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinc, Richard von Krafft-Ebing; Chapter 2 selections from The Transvestites, Magnus Hirschfeld; Chapter 3 Psychopathia Transexualis, David O. Cauldwell; Chapter 4 Transsexualism and Transvestism as Psycho-Somatic and Somato-Psychic Syndromes, Harry Benjamin; Chapter 5 selection from Biological Substrates of Sexual Behavior, Robert Stoller; Chapter 6 Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an “Intersexed” Person, Harold Garfinkel; Chapter 7 selection from The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex, Charles Shepherdson; Chapter 8 A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway; Part II Feminist Investments; Chapter 9 selection from Mother Camp, Esther Newton; Chapter 10 Sappho by Surgery, Janice G. Raymond; Chapter 11 Divided Sisterhood, Carol Riddell; Chapter 12 A Transvestite Answers a Feminist, Lou Sullivan; Chapter 13 Toward a Theory of Gender, Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna; Chapter 14 Doing Justice to Someone, Judith Butler; Chapter 15 Where Did We Go Wrong?, Stephen Whittle; Part III Queering Gender; Chapter 16 Transgender Liberation, Leslie Feinberg; Chapter 17 The Empire Strikes Back, Sandy Stone; Chapter 18 Gender Terror, Gender Rage, Kate Bornstein; Chapter 19 My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix, Susan Stryker; Chapter 20 Judith Butler, Jay Prosser; Chapter 21 Are Lesbians Women?, Jacob Hale; Chapter 22 Hermaphrodites with Attitude, Cheryl Chase; Chapter 23 Mutilating Gender, Dean Spade; Part IV Selves: Identity and Community; Chapter 24 Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiographies, Bernice L. Hausman; Chapter 25 A “Fierce and Demanding” Drive, Joanne Meyerowitz; Chapter 26 One Inc. and Reed Erickson, Aaron H. Devor, Nicholas Matte; Chapter 27 “I Went to Bed With My Own Kind Once”, David Valentine; Chapter 28 Bodies in Motion, Nan Alamilla Boyd; Chapter 29 Manliness, Patrick Califia; Chapter 30 selection from Lesbians Talk Transgender, Zachary I. Nataf; Chapter 31 Gender Without Genitals, Jordy Jones; Part V Transgender Masculinities; Chapter 32 Of Catamites and Kings, Gayle Rubin; Chapter 33 Gender Without Genitals, Henry Rubin; Chapter 34 Look! No, Don't!, Jamison Green; Chapter 35 Queering the Binaries, Jason Cromwell; Chapter 36 selections from “Spoiled Identity”, Heather K. Love; Chapter 37 Transsexuals in the Military, George R. Brown; Part VI Embodiment: Ethics in Time and Space; Chapter 38 What Does It Cost to Tell the Truth?, Riki Anne Wilchins; Chapter 39 Transmogrification, Nikki Sullivan; Chapter 40 Fin de siècle, Fin du sexe, Rita Felski; Chapter 41 Skinflick, Judith Halberstam; Chapter 42 Genderbashing, Viviane K. Namaste; Chapter 43 From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations, T. Benjamin Singer; Chapter 44 From Functionality to Aesthetics, Andrew Sharpe; Part VII Multiple Crossings: Gender, Nationality, Race; Chapter 45 selection from The Chic of Araby, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 46 Transgender Theory and Embodiment, Katrina Roen; Chapter 47 Romancing the Transgender Native, Evan B. Towle, Lynn M. Morgan; Chapter 48 Unsung Heroes, Helen Hok-Sze Leung; Chapter 49 Whose Feminism Is It Anyway?, Emi Koyama; Chapter 50 Transgendering the Politics of Recognition, Richard M. Juang; per Permissions;
About the Author :
Susan Stryker is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University.
Stephen Whittle is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and coordinator of the United Kingdom FTM Network.
Review :
"As both a prefix and an adjective, 'trans' goes over, across, and beyond, making the possibilities seem endless for trans(gender) studies. However, to advance or progress requires some point of departure. For trans(gender) studies to evolve, we must have a solid understanding of where it all began. The Transgender Studies Reader is indispensable for its ability to encapsulate the century of dialog that has become what appears to be a decade-old phenomenon."
— Brice Smith, Women's Studies Quarterly
