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 considering the totality of gendered experience under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, how they survive the damage done through their tenuous position 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, they show how antagonisms faced by gender non-conforming people are structured within society. Looking at the history of transgender movements, historical materialist interventions into developmental theory, psychoanalytic speculation and workplace ethnography, the authors ultimately conclude that for trans liberation, capitalism must be abolished. 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 Dickson 13 ‘Why Are We Like This?’: The Primacy of Transsexuality Xandra 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