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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a vital jumping-off point for conversation, contemplation, and change-making of your own design . . . Queer or not, you will begin to understand why this modern twist on tarot serves each of us and, more importantly, the world . . . You will be transformed.”— Cassandra Snow, author of Queering the Tarot

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Trade ReviewDouglas Robinson deftly maps the tangled switch-points to be found at the intersection of translation and transgender, foregrounding attention to how transgender concepts, texts, and voices are translated from one language to another, in order to broach fundamental questions regarding how meaning must be carried across difference by any intention to communicate. It offers a smart take on issues of translation and language in transgender studies and its foundational critical texts, as well as a useful introduction to transgender studies for translation studies scholars. * Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona, US, and Founding Co-Editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly *When a veteran of literary translation and Translation Studies turns his attentions to a new realm of radical, cutting-edge scholarship like Transgender Studies, one should expect the results will be audacious, searching, and richly informed. In his book, Robinson stages iconoclastic conceptual confrontations between transgender positionality and translation practice, which are flush with erudition and inquisitiveness. The writing is at turns wildly deconstructive, kinetically interactive, and provocatively humanistic, such that reading each new page's soaring lines of figuration requires heightened engagement, even readerly poise. Emerging and founding voices in both Transgender Studies and Translation Studies are brought into energetic conversation with one another—in ways they themselves would likely have least predicted. Daring readers will finish the book outfitted with new concepts, new clarity, and new questions, earned through their sojourn through Robinson’s unique experimentalism. * David J. Gramling, Associate Professor of German Studies and Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, University of Arizona, USA, and author of The Invention of Monolingualism (Bloomsbury, 2016) *An absolutely fascinating meditation on a topic critical to modern thought. * Sandy Stone, Associate Professor Emerita of New Media and Transgender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Permissions Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Why Should Cisnormative Translation Scholars Care About Translation and Transgender? Chapter 2. The Semiosphere Must Be Fed by at Least Two Languages Chapter 3. New Worlds (the Emergence of the Unexpected): The Ecology of Gender as a Dissipative System Chapter 4. Becoming-Trans: The Rhizomatics of Gender Concludingly: (Peri)Performative Becoming-Queer Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA timely, illuminating plan for how trans and cis athletes can both fairly play sportsFair Game offers an insightful, timely examination of the ongoing battle for equality in athletics. As LGBTQ athletes break barriers in the Olympics, transgender athletes still face harsh restrictions in many areas. With twenty-four states passing anti-trans sports legislation in the last two years, nearly half of Americans live under laws that restrict or ban transgender individuals from participating in sports. Fair Game explores why taking the next step and increasing the acceptance of trans athletes is important not only for everyone with an Olympic dream but also everyone whose kids just want to join the town soccer league. Fair Game explores the role of sports in the lives of transgender youth and adults, offering a comprehensive, nuanced, and multivoiced picture of the transgender athletic experience. Through a woven collection of the narratives from a marginalized population, Fair Game examines the patterns of fear and gender stereotypes that undergird anti-trans legislation and offers helpful historical and political context about sex segregation in sports and how bodies (including trans bodies) work in sports. Timely, accessible, inspiring, and rigorous, Fair Game presents a sports landscape beyond our current conceptions, a world changed by unrestricted and joyful movement in sports.

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Book SynopsisHow does one experience things from the viewpoint of the other sex? It is this question that has led to Vildot’s creation of Ruth, the genre-defining story of a sex change told by the protagonist through a series of letters to an anonymous friend. Far from the condemnatory gaze or noise of those who understand life as nothing but outward appearances, Ruth demonstrates the sentimental and intellectual intimacy of a man transitioning into a woman, and describes a profund, touching process in which frustrations, ideas of liberty and changes of identity are interwoven. Without descending into easy morbosity or exhibitions of sensationalist tendencies, Ruth represents Guillem Viladot’s indignation at both masculine and feminine sensibilities, while championing diversity of thought, love, liberty, and, most importantly, desire.Trade Review‘Guillem Viladot is a rebel: insatiable and untiring.’ -Àlex Susanna, editor at Columna ediciones ‘A writer not content with writing poems or prose simply to invoke beauty, but who ever looked to stretch the limits of literary creativity.’ -Pau Echauz, La Vanguàrdia

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Book SynopsisIn this original and unusual work, Lucy Chesser explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are to be found in almost every area of Australian historical enquiry, including Aboriginal-European relations and conflict, convict societies, the goldrushes, bushranging, the 1890s and its nationalist fiction, and World War One. The book compares and contrasts sustained life-long impersonations whereby women lived, worked and sometimes married as men, with other forms of cross-dressing such as public masquerades, cross-dressing on the stage, and the prosecution of men who sought sexual encounters while disguised as women.Trade Review'I was often struck by her respect for the basic integrity of the stories that she tells - yet always confident that I was in the presence of a historian in control of her material and with the wit and imagination not to miss opportunities for interpretation. There is a lightness of touch about the prose combined with a subtlety in the historical explanation that made every page a pleasure.' -- Frank Bongiorno -- Journal of Australian Colonial HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1 1. 'Extraordinary case of concealment of sex': Edward de Lacy Evans and the management of disruptive knowledge 2. 'If he's a woman he's a fine ploughman': public regulation, private tolerance and 'passing women' in colonial Australia 3. Mary Rutledge's mad freak: masquerade, disguise, theatrical impersonation and cross-dressing 4. 'Mere bundles of clothes': cross-dressing and inversion in colonial cultural expression 5. 'She won't be happy till she wears 'em': cross-dressing and sexual politics in the contested 1890s Part 2 6. 'I felt no difference between him and other women': sexual (mis)representation and cultural anxiety in the 1863 prosecution of John Wilson 7. Abominable crimes and strange manias: cross-dressing and homosexual transgression, 1863-1900 8. 'Woman in a suit-of-male': working women in male 'disguise', 1890-1920 9. 'When two loving hearts beat as one': same-sex marriage, subjectivity and self-representation in the case of Marion-Bill-Edwards, 1906-1916 10. Brazen beauties and erotic males: cross-dressing, sensationalism, sexology and the law, 1902-1920 Conclusion Index

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