1st Edition
Transecology Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature
Foreword
Susan Stryker, PhD, University of Arizona, USA
Preface
Greta Gaard, PhD, University of Wisconsin – River Falls, USA
Introduction. "Transecology: (Re)Claiming the Natural, Belonging, Intimacy, and Impurity"
Anna Bedford, PhD, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA
Chapter 1. ‘The Bog is in Me’: Transecology and The Danish Girl
Elizabeth Parker, PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Chapter 2. Coming Out, Camping Out: Theorizing Gender and Nature through Transparent
Katherine Thorsteinson, PhD, St. Thomas University, Canada and Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, PhD, University of Manitoba, Canada
Chapter 3. Posthuman Ecological Intimacy, Waste, and the Trans Body in Nånting måste gå sönder (2014)
Wibke Straube, PhD, Karlstad University, Sweden
Chapter 4. A Journey Through Eco-apocalypse and Gender Transformations: New Perspectives on Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve
Julia Kuznetski, PhD, Tallinn University, Estonia
Chapter 5. Chinese Literature, Ecofeminism, and Transgender Studies
Peter I-min Huang, PhD, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Chapter 6. Gendercrossing at the Frontier: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Transgender Memoirs in the Alborz Mountains
Mat Fournier, PhD, Ithaca College, USA
Chapter 7. Transplacement: Nature and Place in Carter Sickels’s ‘Saving’ and ‘Bittersweet’
Katie Hogan, PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Chapter 8. Sexuate Ecologies and the Landmarking of Transgender Cultural Heritage
Nicole Anae, PhD, Central Queensland University, Australia
Chapter 9. Transgender: An Expanded View of the Ecological Self
Gail Grossman Freyne, LLB, PhD, The Family Therapy & Counselling Centre, Australia
Chapter 10. ‘Good Animals’: The Past, Present, and Futures of Trans Ecology
Nicole Seymour, PhD, California State University, Fullerton, USA
Afterword.
"You’d Be Home: Meditations on Transecologies"
Finn Enke, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Biography
Douglas A. Vakoch is President of METI, dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence and sustaining civilization on multigenerational timescales. As Director of Green Psychotherapy, PC, he helps alleviate environmental distress through ecotherapy. Six of his earlier books explore ecofeminism and ecopsychology.
