Name: Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
Author: Enke, Finn
ISBN: 9781439907467

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Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

edited by Finn Enke

Temple University Press, 2012
Paper: 978-1-4399-0747-4 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-0746-7 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-0748-1
Library of Congress Classification HQ1180.T72 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.4

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Transgender Nonfiction, 2013

If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies suggest timely and necessary changes for institutions of higher learning.

Responding to the more visible presence of transgender persons as well as gender theories, the contributing essayists focus on how gender is practiced in academia, health care, social services, and even national border patrols. Working from the premise that transgender is both material and cultural, the contributors address such aspects of the university as administration, sports, curriculum, pedagogy, and the appropriate location for transgender studies.

Combining feminist theory, transgender studies, and activism centered on social diversity and justice, these essays examine how institutions as lived contexts shape everyday life.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Anne Enke (now Finn Enke )is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, History, and LGBT Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

REVIEWS

"Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies is a very worthwhile book. Enke is knowledgeable about the field, and frames the issues nicely, explicitly addressing some of the core problems in feminism and women’s studies. This anthology shrewdly demonstrates how transgender studies can do feminist work, and it goes a long way toward furthering that important critical/political task."
—Susan Stryker, Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, and author of Transgender History

"Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, is a smart, well-written, and appealing book. Enke has defined, explained, and situated the concept of ‘transfeminism’ vis-à-vis the study of gender. The book is truly multi-disciplinary and the essays address the challenges that trans students, researchers of transgender subjects, and teachers of trans/feminist theory and activism face. This will be an important book."
—Paisley Currah, Professor of Political Science at the Brooklyn College of New York, and co-editor (with Richard Juang and Shannon Minter) of Transgender Rights

"Enke’s book is crucial to teaching how gender identity and trans issues have shifted and will continue to push gender studies. There is no other collection on transgender theory and action that has this level of detail and focus on higher education and gender studies-related disciplinary concerns. Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, examines how institutions as lived contexts shape everyday life and thus the context for thinking, learning and researching trans issues. Enke’s introductory essay is superb, and the collection's interdisciplinary range is comprehensive—it covers key topics in gender studies, and it provides theoretical and experiential critiques of the field of gender studies as well. This is an indispensable volume."
—Cris Mayo, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and author of Disputing the Subject of Sex: Sexuality and Public School Controversies

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Transfeminist Perspectives - A. Finn Enke

Note on Terms and Concepts - A. Finn Enke

Part I: “This Much Knowledge”: Flexible Epistemologies

1. Gender/Sovereignty - Vic Muñoz

2. “Do These Earrings Make Me Look Dumb?” : Diversity, Privilege, and Heteronormative Perceptions of Competence within the Academy - Kate Forbes

3. Trans. Panic. Some Thoughts toward a Theory of Feminist Fundamentalism - Bobby Noble

4. The Education of Little Cis: Cisgender and the Discipline of Opposing Bodies - A. Finn Enke

Part II: Categorical Insufficiencies and “Impossible People”

5. College Transitions: Recommended Policies for TransStudents and Employees - Clark A. Pomerleau

6. “Ain’t I a Woman?” Transgender and Intersex Student Athletes in Women’s Collegiate Sports - Pat Griffin

7. Training Disservice: The Productive Potential and Structural Limitations of Health as a Terrain for Trans Activism - Christoph Hanssmann

8. Transnational Transgender Rights and Immigration Law - Aren Z. Aizura

Part III: Valuing Subjects: Toward Unexpected Alliances

9. Elusive Subjects: Notes on the Relationship between Critical Political Economy and Trans Studies - Dan Irving

10. Reclaiming Femininity - Julia Serano

11. What’s Wrong with Trans Rights? - Dean Spade

12. When Something Is Not Right - Ryka Aoki

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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