ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |100 pages
Sex, Gender, and Science
chapter |7 pages
selections from Psychopathia Sexualis with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinc
chapter |16 pages
A Cyborg Manifesto
part |84 pages
Feminist Investments
part |130 pages
Queering Gender
chapter |13 pages
My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix
part |134 pages
Selves: Identity and Community
chapter |20 pages
One Inc. and Reed Erickson
chapter |13 pages
“I Went to Bed With My Own Kind Once”
part |76 pages
Transgender Masculinities
chapter |16 pages
selections from “Spoiled Identity”
part |87 pages
Embodiment: Ethics in Time and Space
chapter |20 pages
From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations
part |87 pages
Multiple Crossings: Gender, Nationality, Race