ABSTRACT

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix assembles 50 previously published articles to orient students and scholars alike to current directions in the fast-evolving interdisciplinary field of transgender studies.

The volume is organized into ten thematic sections on trans studies’ engagements with feminist theory, queer theory, Black studies, science studies, Indigeneity and coloniality, history, biopolitics, cultural production, the posthumanities, and intersectional approaches to embodied difference. It includes a selection of highly cited works from the two-volume The Transgender Studies Reader, more recently published essays, and some older articles in intersecting fields that are in conversation with where transgender studies is today. Editors Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston provide a foreword, an introduction, and a short abstract of each article that, taken together, document key texts and interdisciplinary connections foundational to the evolution of transgender studies over the past 30 years.

A handy overview for scholars, activists, and all those new to the field, this volume is also ideally suited for use as a textbook in undergraduate or graduate courses in gender studies.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Transgender Studies Remixed

section Section I|51 pages

Trans/Feminisms

chapter 1|16 pages

The Empire Strikes Back

A Posttranssexual Manifesto

chapter 2|12 pages

Sappho by Surgery

The Transsexually Constructed Lesbian-Feminist

chapter 4|8 pages

Transfeminism

Something Else, Somewhere Else

chapter 5|6 pages

Transmasculine Insurgency

Masculinity and Dissidence in Feminist Movements in México

section Section II|67 pages

Trans Matters, Black Matters

chapter 6|13 pages

My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix

Performing Transgender Rage

chapter 8|12 pages

Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe

An American Grammar Book

chapter 9|15 pages

TransMaterialities

Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings

chapter 10|12 pages

“Theorizing in a Void”

Sublimity, Matter, and Physics in Black Feminist Poetics

section Section III|55 pages

The Coloniality of (Trans) Gender

chapter 11|9 pages

Twin-Spirited Woman

Sts'iyóye smestíyexw slhá:li

chapter 12|13 pages

The Coloniality of Gender

chapter 13|13 pages

Extermination of the Joyas

Gendercide in Spanish California

chapter 15|13 pages

Decolonizing Transgender in India

Some Reflections

section Section IV|62 pages

Queer Gender and Its Discontents

chapter 16|11 pages

Selection From Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

chapter 17|12 pages

“The White to Be Angry”

Vaginal Davis's Terrorist Drag

chapter 18|12 pages

The Transgender Look

chapter 19|15 pages

Judith Butler

Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex

chapter 20|10 pages

Getting Disciplined

What's Trans* About Queer Studies Now?

section Section V|51 pages

Sexology and Its Critics

section Section VI|63 pages

Regulating Embodiment

chapter 26|12 pages

Trans Necropolitics

A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife

chapter 28|11 pages

Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility

Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11

chapter 29|12 pages

Electric Brilliancy

Cross-Dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

section Section VII|59 pages

Historicizing Trans

chapter 31|11 pages

Trans, Time, and History

chapter 32|12 pages

Towards a Transgender Archaeology

A Queer Rampage Through Prehistory

chapter 33|12 pages

ONE Inc. and Reed Erickson

The Uneasy Collaboration of Gay and Trans Activism, 1964–2003

chapter 34|10 pages

Pharmaco-Pornographic Regime

Sex, Gender, and Subjectivity in the Age of Punk Capitalism

section Section VIII|60 pages

Transing the Non/Human

chapter 36|15 pages

A Cyborg Manifesto

An Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit

chapter 37|12 pages

Biohacking Gender

Cyborgs, Coloniality, and the Pharmacopornographic Era

chapter 38|10 pages

Animals Without Genitals

Race and Transsubstantiation

chapter 39|10 pages

Lessons From a Starfish

chapter 40|11 pages

Trans Animisms

section Section IX|65 pages

Trans Cultural Production

chapter 42|14 pages

Performance as Intravention

Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit

chapter 43|12 pages

The Labor of Werqing It

The Performance and Protest Strategies of Sir Lady Java

chapter 44|11 pages

Transgender Chican@ Poetics

Contesting, Interrogating, and Transforming Chicana/o Studies

chapter 45|13 pages

Shimmering Phantasmagoria

Trans/Cinema/Aesthetics in an Age of Technological Reproducibility

section Section X|45 pages

Intersectionality and Embodiment

chapter 46|7 pages

Pauli Murray's Peter Panic

Perspectives From the Margins of Gender and Race in Jim Crow America

chapter 48|3 pages

Selection From Brilliant Imperfection

Grappling With Cure

chapter 49|17 pages

Hermaphrodites With Attitude

Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism