1st Edition
The Transgender Studies Reader Remix
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.
Foreword: Susan Stryker
Introduction: Transgender Studies Remixed Dylan McCarthy Blackston
I. Trans/Feminisms
1. The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
Sandy Stone
2. Sappho by Surgery: The Transsexually Constructed Lesbian-Feminist
Janice G. Raymond
3. A Transvestite Answers a Feminist
Lou Sullivan
4. Transfeminism: Something Else, Somewhere Else
Karine Espineira and Sam Bourcier
5. Transmasculine Insurgency: Masculinity and Dissidence in Feminist Movements in México
Daniel B. Coleman
II. Trans Matters, Black Matters
6. My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage
Susan Stryker
7. The Trans*-Ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-Ness
Marquis Bey
8. Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
Hortense J. Spillers
9. TransMaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings
Karen Barad
10. "Theorizing in a Void": Sublimity, Matter, and Physics in Black Feminist Poetics
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
III. The Coloniality of (Trans) Gender
11. Twin-Spirited Woman: Sts'iyóye smestíyexw slhá:li
Saylesh Wesley
12. The Coloniality of Gender
María Lugones
13. Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California
Deborah A. Miranda
14. Selection from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Gloria Anzaldúa
15. Decolonizing Transgender in India: Some Reflections
Anirudha Dutta and Raina Roy
IV. Queer Gender and Its Discontents
16. Selection From Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
17. "The White to be Angry": Vaginal Davis’s Terrorist Drag
José Esteban Muñoz
18. The Transgender Look
Jack Halberstam
19. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transsubstantiation of Sex
Jay Prosser
20. Getting Disciplined: What’s Trans* About Queer Studies Now?
Cáel M. Keegan
V. Sexology and Its Critics
21. "Case 131: Gynandry" From Psychopathia Sexualis
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
22. "Case 13" From The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress
Magnus Hirschfeld
23. Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species
Kadji Amin
24. The Matter of Gender
Nikki Sullivan
25. Trans of Color Critique Before Transsexuality
Jules Gill-Peterson
VI. Regulating Embodiment
26. Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife
C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn
27. Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape
Dean Spade
28. Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11
Toby Beauchamp
29. Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Clare Sears
30. Incarceration, Identity Politics, and the Trans-Cis Divide
Paisley Currah
VII. Historicizing Trans
31. Trans, Time, and History
Leah Devun and Zeb Tortorici
32. Towards a Transgender Archeology: A Queer Rampage Through Prehistory
Mary Wiesmantel
33. ONE Inc. and Reed Erickson: The Uneasy Collaboration of Gay and Trans Activism, 1964–2003
Aaron H. Devor and Nicholas Matte
34. Pharmaco-Pornographic Regime: Sex, Gender, and Subjectivity in the Age of Punk Capitalism
Paul B. Preciado
35. Reading Transsexuality in "Gay" Tehran (Around 1979)
Afsaneh Najmabadi
VIII. Transing the Non/Human
36. A Cyborg Manifesto: An Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit
Donna J. Haraway
37. Biohacking Gender: Cyborgs, Coloniality, and the Pharmacopornographic Era
Hil Malatino
38. Animals Without Genitals: Race and Transsubstantiation
Mel Y. Chen
39. Lessons From a Starfish
Eva Hayward
40. Trans Animisms
Abram J. Lewis
IX. Trans Cultural Production
41. Embracing Transition, or Dancing in the Folds of Time
Julian Carter
42. Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit
Marlon M. Bailey
43. The Labor of Werqing It: The Performance and Protest Strategies of Sir Lady Java
Treva Ellison
44. Transgender Chican@ Poetics: Contesting, Interrogating, and Transforming Chicana/o Studies
Francisco J. Galarte
45. Shimmering Phantasmagoria: Trans/Cinema/Aesthetics in an Age of Technological Reproducibility
Eliza Steinbock
X. Intersectionality and Embodiment
46. Pauli Murray’s Peter Panic: Perspectives From the Margins of Gender and Race in Jim Crow America
Simon D. Elin Fisher
47. A Black Feminist Statement
The Combahee River Collective
48. Selection From Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure
Eli Clare
49. Hermaphrodites With Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism
Cheryl Chase
50. Undetectability in a Time of Trans Visibility
Christopher Joseph Lee
Biography
Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, founding co-editor of Duke University Press’s ASTERISK book series, co-editor of Routledge’s two previous transgender studies readers, and co-director of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria.
Dylan McCarthy Blackston is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University. His work examines transnational political economies of LGBTQ philanthropy, regenerative medicine, and transspecies life.
