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Section 5: Cross Talk: Contention and Complexity in Trans-Discourses

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Chapter 21: Body Shame, Body Pride: Lessons From the Disability Rights Movement - Eli Clare

Further Reading

Almassi, B. (2010). Disability, Functional Diversity, and Trans/feminism. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 3(2), 126–149.

Rembis, M. (2010). Beyond the Binary: Rethinking the Social Model of Disabled Sexuality. Sexuality and Disability, 28(1), 51–60.

Shildrick, M. (2007). Dangerous Discourses: Anxiety, Desire, and Disability. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 8(3), 221–244.

Chapter 22: The Pharmaco-Pornographic Regime: Sex, Gender, and Subjectivity in the Age of Punk Capitalism - Beatriz Preciado

Further Reading

Hansen, M. (2004). Realtime Synthesis and the Différance of the Body: Technocultural Studies in the Wake of Deconstruction. Culture Machine, 6. Retrieved from http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/viewarticle/9/8.

Shapiro, E. (2010). Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age. New York: Routledge.

Steinbock, E. & Bleeker, M. (2008). Introduction: What “Body” Works and What Bodies Do Not Fit. Parallax, 14(1), 1–8.

Venkatesan, P. & Peters, M. A. (2010). Biocapitalism and the Politics of Life. Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, (2), 100.

Chapter 23: Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion - Talia Mae Bettcher

Further Reading

Bettcher, T. (2012). Full-Frontal Morality: The Naked Truth about Gender. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 27(2), 319–337.

 

Lewis, V. (2008). Of Lady-killers and “Men Dressed As Women”: Soap Opera, Scapegoats, and the Mexico City Police Department. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 5(1), 1–28.

MacKenzie, G. & Marcel, M. (2009). Media Coverage of the Murder of U.S. Transwomen of Color. In L. M. Cuklanz and S. Moorti (Eds.), Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations, New York: Peter Lang, 79–106.

Schilt, K. & Westbrook, L. (2009). Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: “Gender
Normals,” Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality. Gender &
Society, 23(4), 440–464.

Serano, J. (2007). Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and Scapegoating of
Femininity. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press.

Links

Learning Trans: www.learningtrans.org
Learning Trans is a project, the goal of which is to produce and to highlight trans community-produced knowledge.

Video

Transphobia - The Basic Denial of Authenticity http://vimeo.com/14690302
Talia Mae Bettcher, Ph.D., speaks on transphobia generally, and on a form of transphobia—the “basic denial of authenticity”—specifically. (HIV Data Summit, California Endowment, Los Angeles)

The Words That Slip http://vimeo.com/14654985
Talia Mae Bettcher performance piece about transphobia and sexual violence.

Films

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (TV, 2006)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Chapter 24: “Still At the Back of the Bus”: Sylvia Rivera’s Struggle - Jessi Gan

Further Reading

Broad, K. L. (2005). Fracturing Transgender: Intersectional Constructions and Identization. Advances in Gender Research, 6, 235–266.

INCITE. (2006). Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology. Cambridge, MA: South End.

Phillips, L. & Olugbala, S. (2006). Sylvia Rivera: Fighting in Her Heels: Stonewall, Civil Rights, and Liberation. In S. Glisson (Ed.), The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 309–334.

Retzloff, T. (2007). Eliding Trans Latino/a Queer Experience in U.S. LGBT History: José Sarria and Sylvia Rivera Reexamined. Centro Journal, 19, 140–161.

Chapter 25: Transgender Subjectivity and the Logic of Sexual Difference - Shanna Carlson

Further Reading

Goldner, V. (2003). Ironic Gender/Authentic Sex. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 4(2), 113–139.

Hines, S. (2010). Queerly Situated? Exploring Negotiations of Trans Queer Subjectivities at Work and Within Community Space in the UK. Gender, Place, & Culture, 17(5), 597–613.

Straayer, C. (2008). Transgender Mirrors: Queering Sexual Difference. In K. Gabbard & W. Luhr (Eds.), Screening Genders, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 123–137.