1st Edition

Transgender Migrations The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

Edited By Trystan Cotten Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger geopolitical contexts of immigration reform, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the increased... Read more

Introduction: Migration and Morphing

Trystan T. Cotten

Part I

Affective Alien(n)ations and (Re)territorialization

 

Chapter 1: Colorful Bodies in the Multikulti Metropolis: On the Neoliberal and Punitive Bases of Trans Vitality and Victimology in the Berlin Hate Crime Debate

Jin Haritaworn

Chapter 2: Forging "Moral Geographies": Law, Sexual Minorities and Internal Tensions in Northern Mexico Border Towns

Vek Lewis

Part II

Trans Aesthetics, Counterpublics and Spatiality

Chapter 3: Transgender Movement(s) and Beating the Straight Flush: Building an Art of Trans Washrooms

Don Romesburg

Lucas Crawford

Chapter 4: Queer Exteriors: Transgender Aesthetics in Early Gay and Lesbian Travel Advertising

Quinn Miller

Chapter 5: Spider/City/Sex

Eva Hayward

Part III

Transectionalities: Mapping Multiple Migrations

Chapter 6: Passing for White, Passing for Man: Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as Transgender Narrative 

C. Riley Snorton

Chapter 7: Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in Motion

Don Romesburg

 

Part IV

Troubling Trans- and Queer Theory

Chapter 8: The Trans Travel Narrative: Provincializing Transsexuality

Aren Aizura

Chapter 9: TRANS/SCRIPTIONS: Home, (Trans)sexual Citizenship and Racialized Bodies

Nael Bhanji

Biography

Trystan Cotten is Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Gender Studies at California State University--Stanislaus.

Transgender Migrations, edited by Trystan T. Cotten, addresses themes of territoriality and spatiality, borders and bodies, transgender and queer migrations…This collection offers chapters by emerging and established voices in the field… [and] it is exciting to see such diverse and innovative work.’ - Katrina Roen, University of Oslo