The Transgender Studies Reader

Zusatztext "As both a prefix and an adjective! 'trans' goes over! across! and beyond! making the possibilities seem endless for trans(gender) studies. However! to advance or progress requires some point of departure. For trans(gender) studies to evolve! we must have a solid understanding of where it all began. The Transgender Studies Reader is indispensable for its ability to encapsulate the century of dialog that has become what appears to be a decade-old phenomenon."- Brice Smith! Women's Studies Quarterly Informationen zum Autor Susan Stryker is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University. Stephen Whittle is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and coordinator of the United Kingdom FTM Network. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists, and academically-based theorists, this title documents the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. It is designed as a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (De)Subjugated Knowledges; Part I Sex, Gender, and Science; Chapter 1 selections from Psychopathia Sexualis with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinc, Richard von Krafft-Ebing; Chapter 2 selections from The Transvestites, Magnus Hirschfeld; Chapter 3 Psychopathia Transexualis, David O. Cauldwell; Chapter 4 Transsexualism and Transvestism as Psycho-Somatic and Somato-Psychic Syndromes, Harry Benjamin; Chapter 5 selection from Biological Substrates of Sexual Behavior, Robert Stoller; Chapter 6 Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an "Intersexed" Person, Harold Garfinkel; Chapter 7 selection from The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex, Charles Shepherdson; Chapter 8 A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway; Part II Feminist Investments; Chapter 9 selection from Mother Camp, Esther Newton; Chapter 10 Sappho by Surgery, Janice G. Raymond; Chapter 11 Divided Sisterhood, Carol Riddell; Chapter 12 A Transvestite Answers a Feminist, Lou Sullivan; Chapter 13 Toward a Theory of Gender, Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna; Chapter 14 Doing Justice to Someone, Judith Butler; Chapter 15 Where Did We Go Wrong?, Stephen Whittle; Part III Queering Gender; Chapter 16 Transgender Liberation, Leslie Feinberg; Chapter 17 The Empire Strikes Back, Sandy Stone; Chapter 18 Gender Terror, Gender Rage, Kate Bornstein; Chapter 19 My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix, Susan Stryker; Chapter 20 Judith Butler, Jay Prosser; Chapter 21 Are Lesbians Women?, Jacob Hale; Chapter 22 Hermaphrodites with Attitude, Cheryl Chase; Chapter 23 Mutilating Gender, Dean Spade; Part IV Selves: Identity and Community; Chapter 24 Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiographies, Bernice L. Hausman; Chapter 25 A "Fierce and Demanding" Drive, ...

"As both a prefix and an adjective, 'trans' goes over, across, and beyond, making the possibilities seem endless for trans(gender) studies. However, to advance or progress requires some point of departure. For trans(gender) studies to evolve, we must have a solid understanding of where it all began. The Transgender Studies Reader is indispensable for its ability to encapsulate the century of dialog that has become what appears to be a decade-old phenomenon." Brice Smith, Women's Studies Quarterly

Autorentext

Susan Stryker is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University. Stephen**Whittle** is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and coordinator of the United Kingdom FTM Network.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
Bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists, and academically-based theorists, this title documents the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. It is designed as a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.

Inhalt

Introduction (De)Subjugated Knowledges; Part I Sex, Gender, and Science; Chapter 1 selections from Psychopathia Sexualis with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinc, Richard von Krafft-Ebing; Chapter 2 selections from The Transvestites, Magnus Hirschfeld; Chapter 3 Psychopathia Transexualis, David O. Cauldwell; Chapter 4 Transsexualism and Transvestism as Psycho-Somatic and Somato-Psychic Syndromes, Harry Benjamin; Chapter 5 selection from Biological Substrates of Sexual Behavior, Robert Stoller; Chapter 6 Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an "Intersexed" Person, Harold Garfinkel; Chapter 7 selection from The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex, Charles Shepherdson; Chapter 8 A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway; Part II Feminist Investments; Chapter 9 selection from Mother Camp, Esther Newton; Chapter 10 Sappho by Surgery, Janice G. Raymond; Chapter 11 Divided Sisterhood, Carol Riddell; Chapter 12 A Transvestite Answers a Feminist, Lou Sullivan; Chapter 13 Toward a Theory of Gender, Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna; Chapter 14 Doing Justice to Someone, Judith Butler; Chapter 15 Where Did We Go Wrong?, Stephen Whittle; Part III Queering Gender; Chapter 16 Transgender Liberation, Leslie Feinberg; Chapter 17 The Empire Strikes Back, Sandy Stone; Chapter 18 Gender Terror, Gender Rage, Kate Bornstein; Chapter 19 My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix, Susan Stryker; Chapter 20 Judith Butler, Jay Prosser; Chapter 21 Are Lesbians Women?, Jacob Hale; Chapter 22 Hermaphrodites with Attitude, Cheryl Chase; Chapter 23 Mutilating Gender, Dean Spade; Part IV Selves: Identity and Community; Chapter 24 Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiographies, Bernice L. Hausman; Chapter 25 A "Fierce and Demanding" Drive, Joanne Meyerowitz; Chapter 26 One Inc. and Reed Erickson, Aaron H. Devor, Nicholas Matte; Chapter 27 "I Went to Bed With My Own Kind Once", David Valentine; Chapter 28 Bodies in Motion, Nan Alamill…