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Section 9: Biopolitics and the Administration of Trans-Embodiment(s)
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Chapter 41: Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy): The Transsexual Whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the (Post)Colonial Philippines - Susan Stryker
Further Reading
Mathews, P. W. (2006). Transgendering Sexuality in the Philippines. Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies, (46), 63.
Video
British Pathe Newsreel: World's First Hormone Therapy Transsexual – Ex-GI Soldier Christine Jorgensen (1953)
http://youtu.be/8FYZ6m06bDU
Chapter 42: Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Nineteenth - Century San Francisco - Clare Sears
Further Reading
Garland-Thomson, R. (1997). Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press.
Links
Dominick Evans. My Perspective on BIID as a Transgender Person in a Wheelchair. http://www.dominickevans.com/2008/07/my-perspective-on-biid/
Chapter 43: Shuttling Between Bodies and Borders: Transmigration and the Politics of Rightful Killing - Sima Shakhsari
Further Reading
Bacchetta, P. & Haritaworn, J. (2011). There are Many Transatlantics: Homonationalism, Homotransnationalism. In K. Davis & M. Evans (Eds.), Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism As Travelling Theory. London: Ashgate, 127–144.
Dhoot, S. (2012). Canada’s Inter/national Gay Rights: Progress, Pinkwashing, and Imperialism. In University of Waterloo-Wilfrid Laurier University 2012.
Chapter 44: Silhouettes of Defiance: the memorialization of historical sites of queer and transgender resistance in an age of neoliberal inclusivity - Che Gossett
Further Reading
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (Ed.). (2009). The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Brooklyn: South End Press.
Links
Report: This is a Prison: Glitter is Not Allowed
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56677078/This-is-a-Prison-Glitter-is-Not-Allowed)
Hearts on a Wire Collective
https://www.facebook.com/hearts.wire
Critical Resistance
http://criticalresistance.org/
Chapter 45: Neutering the Transgendered: Human Rights and Japan’s Law No. 111 - Laura Norton
Further Reading
Lemke, T., Moore, L.-J., & Casper, M. J. (2011). Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction. New York: NYU Press.
Sabatello, M. (2011). Advancing Transgender Family Rights Through Science: A Proposal for an Alternative Framework. Human Rights Quarterly, 33(1), 43–75.