Trans Studies

The Challenge to Hetero/homo Normativities

Author: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Secondary Author: Sarah Tobias
ISBN: 9780813576404

This publication is an interdisciplinary collection of essays, bringing together experts in the field of trans studies and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. Table Of Contents: Introduction: Thinking beyond Hetero/Homonormativities / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias; Part I Gender boundaries within educational spaces: 1. Creating a gender-inclusive campus / Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin; 2. Transgendering the academy: ensuring transgender inclusion in higher education / Pauline Park; Part II Trans imaginaries: 3. "I'll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I'm queer": Samuel Beckett's Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change / Lucas Crawford; 4. Excruciating improbability and the transgender Jamaican / Keja Valens; 5. TRANScoding the transnational digital economy / Jian Chen; Part III Crossing borders / crossing gender; 6. When things don't add up: transgender bodies and the mobile borders of biometr

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 2016

Subjects: Psychology / Human Sexuality, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / LGBT Studies / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: LBGT+/Queer (LGBT))