Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities

by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Sarah Tobias, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Genny Beemyn

Overview

Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms.   
 
Trans Studies is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. Taking an intersectional approach, this theoretically sophisticated book deeply grounded in real-world concerns bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813576404
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

YOLANDA MARTÍNEZ-SAN MIGUEL is a professor of Latino studies and comparative literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of several books including From Lack to Excess: ‘Minor’ Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context. 
 
SARAH TOBIAS is the associate director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, where she serves as affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous publications, including the book Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families. 
 
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction      Thinking beyond Hetero/Homonormativities
             Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias
 
Part I                 Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces
 
Chapter 1         Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus
             Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin
 
Chapter 2        Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education
             Pauline Park
 
Part II                 Trans Imaginaries
 
Chapter 3         “I’ll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I’m queer”: Samuel Beckett’s Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change
             Lucas Crawford
 
Chapter 4         Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican
             Keja Valens
 
Chapter 5         TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy
             Jian Chen
 
Part III                 Crossing Borders/Crossing Gender
 
Chapter 6         When Things Don’t Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics
             Toby Beauchamp
 
Chapter 7         Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women’s Survival
             Nora Butler Burke
 
Chapter 8         Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression
             Aren Z. Aizura
 
Part IV                Trans Activism and Policy
 
Chapter 9         The “T” in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Quebec (Canada)?
             Mickael Chacha Enriquez
 
Chapter 10       Translatina Is About the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco
             Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruíz and Marcia Ochoa
 
Chapter 11       LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy
             Jody L. Herman
 
Part V                Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy
 
Chapter 12      Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes
             Sel J. Hwahng
 
Chapter 13      Stick Figures and Pronouns: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy
             A. Finn Enke
 
Conclusion      Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination
             Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias

Notes on Contributors
             
Index
 

Editorial Reviews

"A valuable contribution to the field … Trans Studies is an informative and stimulating read."

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

"This welcome new anthology brings into sharp focus one of the most productive contributions the field of trans studies has made to scholarship on sexuality and gender: revealing the extent to which dominant, naturalized constructions of the relationship between sexed embodiment and gendered subjectivity traverse not only the heteronormative world, but also much of feminism, queer theory, and other fields that study the creation of social hierarchy from bodily difference. Addressing such diverse topics as educational activism, policy reform, surveillance technologies, cinema, theater, narrative arts, migration, and social movements, Trans Studies ably demonstrates that the field it surveys has indeed arrived as an important new lens for understanding, interpreting and appreciating a wide range of human diversities."

coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader v. 1 & 2 and Co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly - Susan Stryker

Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

"Trans Studies brings together some of the most challenging and compelling recent work in the field of transgender studies. The collection includes voices from inside and outside the academy, and it makes activists' contributions central. The fact of this diversity makes the project extremely vibrant: it will have a broad appeal across disciplines and for activists and community members as well."

University of Pennsylvania - Heather Love

"A vital addition to the field of trans studies. Martínez-San Miguel and Tobias have curated a collection of rich new scholarship located in the spaces between trans, feminist, and queer studies."

coeditor of Transgender Rights and co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly - Paisley Currah

"Trans Studies brings together some of the most challenging and compelling recent work in the field of transgender studies. The collection includes voices from inside and outside the academy, and it makes activists' contributions central. The fact of this diversity makes the project extremely vibrant: it will have a broad appeal across disciplines and for activists and community members as well."

--Heather Love "University of Pennsylvania"

"A valuable contribution to the field ... Trans Studies is an informative and stimulating read."-- "Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy"

"A vital addition to the field of trans studies. Martínez-San Miguel and Tobias have curated a collection of rich new scholarship located in the spaces between trans, feminist, and queer studies."--Paisley Currah "coeditor of Transgender Rights and co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly"

"This welcome new anthology brings into sharp focus one of the most productive contributions the field of trans studies has made to scholarship on sexuality and gender: revealing the extent to which dominant, naturalized constructions of the relationship between sexed embodiment and gendered subjectivity traverse not only the heteronormative world, but also much of feminism, queer theory, and other fields that study the creation of social hierarchy from bodily difference. Addressing such diverse topics as educational activism, policy reform, surveillance technologies, cinema, theater, narrative arts, migration, and social movements, Trans Studies ably demonstrates that the field it surveys has indeed arrived as an important new lens for understanding, interpreting and appreciating a wide range of human diversities."--Susan Stryker "coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader v. 1 & 2 and Co-founder of Transgender Studies Quarterly"

Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)-- "Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)"

From the Publisher

"A valuable contribution to the field … Trans Studies is an informative and stimulating read."

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy