Transgender Marxism

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The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in the workplace and the home, and give a powerful response to right-wing scaremongering against ‘gender ideology'. Reflecting on the relations between gender and labour, these essays reveal the structure of antagonisms faced by gender non-conforming people within society. Looking at the history of transgender movements, Marxist interventions into developmental theory, psychoanalysis and workplace ethnography, the authors conclude that for trans liberation, capitalism must be abolished. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction - Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke 1. Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing (Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context - Noah Zazanis 2. Trans Work: Employment Trajectories, Labour Discipline and Gender Freedom - Michelle O’Brien 3. Judith Butler’s Scientific Revolution: Foundations for a Transsexual Marxism - Rosa Lee 4. How Do Gender Transitions Happen? - Jules Joanne Gleeson 5. A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction - Nat Raha 6. Notes from Brazil - Virginia Guitzel 7. Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Formation - Kate Doyle Griffiths 8. The Bridge Between Gender and Organising - Farah Thompson 9. Encounters in Lancaster - JN Hoad 10. Transgender and Disabled Bodies: Between Pain and the Imaginary - Zoe Belinsky 11. A Dialogue on Deleuze and Gender Difference - The Conspiratorial Association for the Advancement of Cultural Degeneracy 12. Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology - Nathaniel Dickinson 13. ‘Why Are We Like This?’: The Primacy of Transsexuality - Xendra Metcalfe 14. Cosmos Against Nature in the Class Struggle of Proletarian Trans Women - Anja Heisler Weiser Flower Afterword: One Utopia, One Dystopia - Jordy Rosenberg Notes on the Contributors Index