The Transgender Reader
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...
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Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history stretching back at least to the early 20th century.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."Unsung Heroes: Reading Transgender Subjectivities in Hong Kong Action Cinema." Copyright (c) 2004-5 by Helen Hok-Sze Leung. Reprinted from Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema. Eds. Laikwan Pang and Day Wong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. 81-98.
(De)subjugated knowledges : an introduction to transgender studies1ISex, gender, and science191Selections from psychopathia sexualis with special reference to contrary sexual instinct : a medico-legal study212Selections from the transvestites : the erotic drive to cross-dress283Psychopathia transexualis404Transsexualism and transvestism as psycho-somatic and somato-psychic syndromes455Selection from biological substrates of sexual behavior536Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an "intersexed" person587Selection from the role of gender and the imperative of sex948A Cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century103IIFeminist investments1199Selection from mother camp12110Sappho by surgery : the transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist13111Divided sisterhood : a critical review of Janice Raymond's the transsexual empire14412A transvestite answers a feminist15913Toward a theory of gender16514Doing justice to someone : sex reassignment and allegories of transsexuality18315Where did we go wrong? : feminism and trans theory - two teams on the same side?194IIIQueering gender20316Transgender liberation : a movement whose time has come20517The empire strikes back : a posttranssexual manifesto22118Gender terror, gender rage23619My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix : performing transgender rage24420Judith Butler : queer feminism, transgender, and the transubstantiation of sex25721Are lesbians women?28122Hermaphrodites with attitude : mapping the emergence of intersex political activism30023Mutilating gender315IVSelves : identity and community33324Body, technology, and gender in transsexual autobiographies33525A "fierce and demanding" drive36226ONE Inc. and Reed Erickson : the uneasy collaboration of gay and trans activism, 1964-200338727"I went to bed with my own kind once" : the erasure of desire in the name of identity40728Bodies in motion : lesbian and transsexual histories42029Manliness43430Selection from lesbians talk transgender43931Gender without genitals : Hedwig's six inches449VTransgender masculinities46932Of catamites and kings : reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries47133The logic of treatment48234Look! No, don't! : the visibility dilemma for transsexual men49935Queering the binaries : transsituated identities, bodies, and sexualities50936Selections from "spoiled identity" : Stephen Gordon's loneliness and the difficulties of queer history52137Transsexuals in the military : flight into hypermasculinity537VIEmbodiment : ethics in time and space54538What does it cost to tell the truth?54739Transmogrification : (Un)becoming other(s)55240Fin de siecle, Fin du sexe : transsexuality, postmodernism, and the death of history56541Skinflick : posthuman gender in Jonathan Demme's the silence of the lambs57442Genderbashing : sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space58443From the medical gaze to sublime mutations : the ethics of (re)viewing non-normative body images60144From functionality to aesthetics : the architecture of transgender jurisprudence621VIIMultiple crossings : gender, nationality, race63345Selections prom the chic of Araby : transvestism and the erotics of cultural appropriation63546Transgender theory and embodiment : the risk of racial marginalization65647Romancing the transgender native : rethinking the use of the "third gender" concept66648Unsung heroes : reading transgender subjectivities in Hong Kong action cinema68549Whose feminism is it anyway? : the unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate69850Transgendering the politics of recognition706
