Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Stephen Whittle
(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies by Susan Stryker
I. SEX, GENDER, AND SCIENCE
1. selections from Psychopathia Sexualis with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual
Instinct
Richard von Kraft-Ebing
2. selections from The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress
Magnus Hirschfeld
3. Psychopathia Transexualis
David O. Cauldwell
4. Transsexualism and Transvestism as Psycho-Somatic and Somato-Psychic
Syndromes
Harry Benjamin
5. Biological Substrates of Sexual Behavior
Robert Stoller
6. Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an ‘Intersexed’ Person
Harold Garfinkel
7. The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex
Charles Shepherdson
8. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Donna Haraway
II. FEMINIST INVESTMENTS
9. selections from Mother Camp
Esther Newton
10. Sappho by Surgery: The Transsexually Constructed Lesbian-Feminist
Janice Raymond
11. Divided Sisterhood: A Critical Review of Janice Raymond’s The Transsexual
Empire
Carol Riddell
12. A Transvestite Answers a Feminist
Lou Sullivan
13. Toward a Theory of Gender
Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna
14. Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality
Judith Butler
15. Where Did We Go Wrong?: Feminism and Trans Theory – Two Teams on the Same Side?
Stephen Whittle
III. QUEERING GENDER
16. Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
Leslie Feinberg
17. The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
Sandy Stone
18. Gender Terror, Gender Rage
Kate Bornstein
19. My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing
Transgender Rage
Susan Stryker
20. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transsubstantiation of Sex
Jay Prosser
21. Are Lesbians Women?
Jacob Hale
22. Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political
Activism
Cheryl Chase
23. Mutilating Gender
Dean Spade
IV. SELVES: IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY
24. Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiography
Bernice Hausman
25. A ‘Fierce and Demanding’ Drive
Joanne Meyerowitz
26. ONE Inc., and Reed Erickson: The Uneasy Collaboration of Gay and Trans
Activism, 1964-2003
Aaron Devor and Nicholas Matte
27. ‘I Went to Bed With My Own Kind Once’: The Erasure of Desire in Name of Identity
David Valentine
28. Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories
Nan Alamilla Boyd
29. Manliness
Patrick Califia-Rice
30. selections from Lesbians Talk: Transgender
Zachary I. Nataf
31. Gender Without Genitals: Hedwig’s Six Inches
Jordy Jones
V. TRANSGENDER MASCULINITIES
32. Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries
Gayle Rubin
33. The Logic of Treatment
Henry Rubin
34. Look! No Don’t! The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men
Jamison Green
35. Queering the Binaries: Transsituated Identities, Bodies, and Sexualities
Jason Cromwell
36. "Spoiled Identity": Stephen Gordon’s Loneliness and the Difficulties of Doing
Queer History
Heather Love
37. Transsexuals in the Military: Flight into Hypermasculinity
George Brown
VI. EMBODIMENT: ETHICS IN TIME AND SPACE
38. What Does it Cost to Tell the Truth?
Rikki Anne Wilchins
39. Transmogrification: (Un)Becoming Other(s)
Nikki Sullivan
40. Fin de siècle, Fin du sexe: Transsexualism, Postmodernism, and the Death of
History
Rita Felski
41. Skin-Flick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs
Judith Halberstam
42. Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender, and the Regulation of Public Space
Viviane K. Namaste
43. From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations: Re-viewing Non-standard
Bodies
Ben Singer
44. From Functionality to Aesthetics: The Architecture of Transgender
Jurisprudence
Andrew Sharpe
VII. MULTIPLE CROSSINGS: GENDER, NATIONALITY, RACE
45. The Chic of Araby: Transvestism and the Erotics of Cultural Appropriation
Marjorie Garber
46. Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The Risk of Racial Marginalization
Katrina Roen
47. Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the "Third Gender"
Concept
Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan
48. Unsung Heroes: Reading Transgender Subjectivities in Hong Kong Action
Cinema
Helen Hok-Sze Leung
49. Whose Feminism Is It Anyway? The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate
Emi Koyama
50. Transgendering the Politics of Recognition
Richard Juang
Permissions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
Biography
Susan Stryker is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University. Stephen Whittle is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and coordinator of the United Kingdom FTM Network.
"As both a prefix and an adjective, 'trans' goes over, across, and beyond, making the possibilities seem endless for trans(gender) studies. However, to advance or progress requires some point of departure. For trans(gender) studies to evolve, we must have a solid understanding of where it all began. The Transgender Studies Reader is indispensable for its ability to encapsulate the century of dialog that has become what appears to be a decade-old phenomenon."
— Brice Smith, Women's Studies Quarterly
