The Transgender Studies Reader 2

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Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge’s The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that has expanded the boundaries of inquiry in many directions. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 gathers these disparate strands of scholarship, and collects them into a format that makes sense for teaching and research. Complementing the first volume, rather than competing with it, The Transgender Studies Reader 2 consists of fifty articles, with a general introduction by the editors, explanatory head notes for each essay, and bibliographical suggestions for further research. Unlike the first volume, which was historically based, tracing the lineage of the field, this volume focuses on recent work and emerging trends. To keep pace with this rapidly changing area, the second reader has a companion website, with images, links to blogs, video, and other material to help supplement the book. Title Page......Page 0 Contents......Page 3 Introduction......Page 7 1. Normalized Transgressions: Legitimizing the Transsexual Body as Productive......Page 19 2. Retelling Racialized Violence, Remaking White Innocence: The Poltiics of Interlocking Oppressions in Transgender Day of Remembrance......Page 34 3. Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11......Page 50 4. Tracing This Body: Transsexuality, Pharmaceuticals, and Capitalism......Page 60 5. Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife......Page 70 6. "The White to Be Angry": Vaginal Davis's Terrorist Drag......Page 81 7. Felt Matters......Page 93 8. Groping Theory: Haptic Cinema and Trans-Curiosity in Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust......Page 103 9. The Transgender Look......Page 121 10. Embracing Transition, or Dancing in the Folds of Time......Page 132 11. Sex and Diversity, Sex Versus Gender, and Sexed Bodies......Page 146 12. Animal Trans......Page 155 13. Animals Without Genitals: Race and Transsubstantiation......Page 167 14. Lessons From a Starfish......Page 177 15. Interdependent Ecological Transsex: Notes on Re/production, "Transgender" Fish, and the Management of Populations, Species, and Resources......Page 188 16. Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender......Page 198 18. Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Depicts the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels......Page 210 19. The Education of Little Cis: Cisgender and the Discipline of Opposing Bodies......Page 218 20. Our Bodies Are Not Ourselves: Tranny Guys and the Racialized Class Politics of Incoherence......Page 229 21. Body Shame, Body Pride: Lessons From the Disability Rights Movement......Page 239 22. The Pharmaco-Pornographic Regime: Sex, Gender and Subjectivity in the Age of Punk Capitalism......Page 244 23. Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion......Page 256 24. "Still at the Back of the Bus": Sylvia Rivera's Struggle......Page 269 25. Transgender Subjectivity and the Logic of Sexual Difference......Page 280 26. Towards a Transgender Archaeology: A Queer Rampage Through Prehistory......Page 294 27. Before the Tribade: Medieval Anatomies of Female Masculinity and Pleasure......Page 310 28. Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California......Page 325 30. Reading Transsexuality in "Gay" Tehran (Around 1979)......Page 339 31. Between Surveillance and Liberation: The Lives of Cross-Dressed Male Sex Workers in Early Postwar Japan......Page 359 32. An Ethics of Transsexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and the Place of Sexual Undecidability......Page 374 33. Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic Imagination......Page 382 34. Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality, and Participation in "Loca-lization"......Page 399 35. Thinking Figurations Otherwise: Reframing Dominant Knowledges of Sex and Gender Variance in Latin America......Page 413 36. Transgender Without Organs?: Mobilizing a Geo-affective Theory of Gender Modification......Page 427 37. Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon's Life in Motion......Page 437 38. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: "Race," Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics......Page 450 39. Trans/scriptions: Homing Desires, (Trans)sexual Citizenship and Racialized Bodies......Page 466 40. Transportation: Translating Filipino and Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities through Global Migration and Seafaring......Page 481 41. Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy): The Transsexual Whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the (Post)colonial Philippines......Page 495 42. Electric Brilliancy: Cross-dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Ninteenth-century San Francisco......Page 506 43. Shuttling Between Bodies and Borders: Iranian Transsexual Refugees and the Politics of Rightful Killing......Page 517 44. Silhouettes of Defiance: Memorializing Historical Sites of Queer and Transgender Resistance in an Age of Neoliberal Inclusivity......Page 532 45. Neutering the Transgendered: Human Rights and Japan's Law No. 111......Page 543 46. "We Won't Know Who You Are": Contesting Sex Designations in New York City Birth Certificates......Page 556 47. Reinscribing Normality? The Law and Politics of Transgender Marriage......Page 572 48. Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit......Page 579 49. Transgender as Mental Illness: Nosology, Social Justice, and the Tarnished Golden Mean......Page 593 50. Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We've Got......Page 602