Trans Studies : : The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities / / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Sarah Tobias.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
• TeilnehmendeR: Aizura, Aren Z.; Beauchamp, Toby; Beemyn, Genny; Burke, Nora Butler; Chen, Jian; Crawford, Lucas; Enke, A. Finn; Enriquez, Mickael Chacha; Herman, Jody L.; Hwahng, Sel J.; Keja, Valens; Miguel, Yolanda Martinez-San; Ochoa, Marcia; Park, Pauline; Rankin, Susan R.; Ruiz, Alexandra Rodriguez de; Tobias, Sarah
• MitwirkendeR: Aizura, Aren Z.,; Beauchamp, Toby,; Beemyn, Genny,; Butler Burke, Nora,; Chacha Enriquez, Mickael,; Chen, Jian,; Crawford, Lucas,; Enke, A. Finn,; Herman, Jody L.,; Hwahng, Sel J.,; Martínez-San Miguel, Yolanda,; Ochoa, Marcia,; Park, Pauline,; Rankin, Susan R.,; Rodríguez de Ruíz, Alexandra,; Tobias, Sarah,; Valens, Keja,
• HerausgeberIn: Miguel, Yolanda Martínez-San,; Tobias, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 5 tables

Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms. Trans Studies is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. Taking an intersectional approach, this theoretically sophisticated book deeply grounded in real-world concerns bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thinking beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities -- Part I: Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces -- 1. Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus -- 2. Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education -- Part II: Trans Imaginaries -- 3. "I'll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I'm queer": Samuel Beckett's Spatial Aesthetic -- 4. Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican -- 5. TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy -- Part III: Crossing Borders / Crossing Gender -- 6. When Things Don't Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics -- 7. Connecting the Dots: National Security, the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women's Survival -- 8. Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression -- Part IV: Trans Activism and Policy -- 9. The T in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Québec (Canada)? -- 10. Translatina Is about the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco -- 11. LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy -- Part V: Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy -- 12. Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes -- 13. Stick Figures and Little Bits: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy -- Conclusion: Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination -- Notes on Contributors -- Index