Gender studies: transgender people Books

Book SynopsisDaring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men American masculinity is being critiqued, questioned, and reinterpreted for a new era. In Men in Place Miriam J. Abelson makes an original contribution to this conversation through in-depth interviews with trans men in the U.S. West, Southeast, and Midwest, showing how the places and spaces men inhabit are fundamental to their experiences of race, sexuality, and gender.Men in Place explores the shifting meanings of being a man across cities and in rural areas. Here Abelson develops the insight that individual men do not have one way to be masculine—rather, their ways of being men shift between different spaces and places. She reveals a widespread version of masculinity that might be summed up as “strong when I need to be, soft when I need to be,” using the experiences of trans men to highlight the fundamental construction of manhood for all men.With an eye to how societal institutions promote homophobia, transphobia, and racism, Men in Place argues that race and sexuality fundamentally shape safety for men, particularly in rural spaces, and helps us to better understand the ways that gender is created and enforced.Trade Review"In Men in Place, Miriam J. Abelson foregrounds the lives of an intentionally diverse sample of trans men in the U.S. to address shifts in the look and feel of powerful intersecting systems of inequality. In this brilliantly written, theoretically sophisticated, interdisciplinary, and compassionate study, Abelson poses new challenges to research on masculinities and gender and sexual inequality that illuminate dynamics of power and inequality that reach far beyond the lives of the trans men she studied." —Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara "What does it mean to be a man in the 21st century? Through moving interviews with trans men from across the United States, Miriam J. Abelson documents that there is no easy answer to this question. Men in Place shows us that we cannot begin to understand what it means to be a man without understanding race and space. Abelson weaves a story of manhood that is almost always just out of reach for all men, a Goldilocks masculinity that must be managed, tailored, and altered depending on the environment. Men in Place is a must read for scholars interested in masculinity and its meanings across space." —C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon"Men in Place boldly investigates the intersections of white supremacy, economic strain, and rurality as they shape disparities in the experiences of rural trans men of color and their white counterparts. With powerful detail, Miriam J. Abelson demonstrates how the willingness of cis people to embrace trans men as men is shaped by their perception of local and external threats to their community—threats that are not just related to gender and sexuality, but also demographic and economic transformations. This book's substantial and diverse sample of trans men and its critical race and feminist theoretical orientation make Men in Place a unique and necessary contribution to trans studies." —Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men"The most impressive innovation for analysis is her sample, consisting entirely of trans men whose voices can matchlessly capture the experience of doing masculinity. Abelson explores the process of discerning how to become men across all contexts—but with particular attention to the challenges of bathroom behaviors and medical settings—through interviews that span rural, suburban, and urban gender norms."—CHOICE"Miriam Abelson’s book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America (2019, University of Minnesota Press), is a masterpiece. It is an outstanding example of qualitative in-depth interviewing as well as feminist and grounded theory methodological approaches and analyses. Abelson’s work to travel the United States interviewing 66 diverse transgender men across the Midwest, South, and West resulted in her amassing one of the largest in-depth interview samples with this population conducted to date. In a technologically-mediated era, Abelson could have conducted these interviews using internet technologies. Instead, she painstakingly traveled thousands of miles, across four years, to ensure that she could develop rapport and potentially longer-lasting research partnerships and connections with participants. Her refusal to take research shortcuts reveals her careful attention to feminist research ethics and a desire to obtain the richest data possible for her important study."—Social Forces"Miriam Abelson’s book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race and Sexuality in America, is a masterpiece. It is an outstanding example of qualitative in-depth interviewing as well as feminist and grounded theory methodological approaches and analyses."—Social Forms"A complex and politically urgent text. Trans rights are under exceptional attack, and, as Men in Place makes clear, we will only be able to effectively advocate trans recognition and trans flourishing if we keep an intersectional analysis front and center. This lucid and meticulous book is thus not just a significant contribution to the scholarship on masculinity, sexuality, and race, it is also an imperative read for all of us fighting for trans livelihoods of all kinds. "—Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities"Men in Place is an exemplar of the sophisticated studies of transgender experience currently emerging in the maturing field of trans studies."—American Journal of Sociology Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: “I Don’t Have One Way to Be”1. Masculinities in Space: Thugs, Rednecks, and Faggy Men2. One Is Not Born a Man: Social Recognition and Situated Gendered Knowledges3. “Strong When I Need to Be, Soft When I Need to Be”: Situated Emotional Control and Masculinities4. Geography of Violence: Spatial Fears and the Reproduction of Inequality5. Institutional Contexts of Violence: Heterosexism and Cissexism in Everyday SpacesConclusion: Contemporary Masculinities and Transgender PoliticsAcknowledgmentsAppendix A: Interviewee DemographicsAppendix B: A Note on MethodologyNotes

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender.Beginning with the early 1900s when children with “ambiguous” sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children’s sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and ’70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender’s plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies.Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century—a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents.Trade Review"Histories of the Transgender Child is a tour de force contribution to transgender studies, tracing little-noticed pathways from the past toward convergences that increasingly take center stage in the next field. An elegant combination of sophisticated theorization with equally sophisticated attention to archival and historical materials, this is one of the best books in trans studies in recent years."—Susan Stryker, University of Arizona"Jules Gill-Peterson excavates the history of medicine, introducing readers to a century’s worth of gender nonconforming youth. This remarkable book is not merely a backward glance; it offers an urgent call to reimagine trans as a form of self-knowledge children can hold and for an ethics of care that focuses on affirmation."—Tey Meadow, author of Trans Kids"Meticulously researched and compellingly argued, this book is a welcome addition to a number of fields, including trans of color critique, childhood studies, and queer and trans history."—C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides"This work fills a gap in queer history; older trans, intersex, and nonbinary people who work through the dense, theoretical prose may find their experiences reflected in Gill-Peterson’s history, and younger ones may discover that their “uncovering of a century of untold stories” provides a tether to an underexplored legacy."—Publishers Weekly "You have to start somewhere. Indeed, few things begin in a vacuum: you need an idea, then experiments and practice to create a masterpiece. Nothing magically just appears. And in the new book “Histories of the Transgender Child” by Jules Gill-Peterson,you’ll see that that’s true, too, about knowledge and change." —South Florida Gay News "For children’s literature scholars who work on gender and sexuality, this book is essential reading for its insights that transgender children are not new and that binary sex and gender are extremely recent and fragile ideas reliant on a dehumanizing, racially coded conceptualization of the child as plasticity." —The Lion and the UnicornTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Toward a Trans-of-Color Critique of Medicine1. The Racial Plasticity of Gender and the Child2. Before Transsexuality: The Transgender Child from the 1900s to the 1930s3. Sex in Crisis: Intersex Children in the 1950s and the Invention of Gender4. From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: Transgender Childhood in the 1960s5. Transgender Boyhood, Race, and Puberty in the 1970sConclusion: How to Bring Your Kids Up TransAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the “wrong body.” Posttransition, trans individuals—especially trans people of color—are subject to unrelenting transantagonism. Yet trans individuals are discouraged from displaying or admitting to despondency or despair. By moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience, Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and organizing—and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and well-being.Trade Review "Hil Malatino has become an indispensable thinker when it comes to trans scholarship, somehow able to put into words not just ideas but feelings that I had previously found ineffable and unspeakable, a talent that is familiar to me from the very best of literature."—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby "Down with the narrative tyranny of gender dysphoria and euphoria! Side Affects dares invoke a trans right to feel bad, not as antidote to normativity but as a portal to the complex feelings of transition that have been buried by medicalization, activist urgency, and the collateral damage of transphobia. Hil Malatino delivers a powerful trans reckoning for feminist, queer, and affect studies."—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child "Overall, it’s an amazingly informative publication that I’m certain will enlighten many people in academia, trans, or otherwise."—neowitcher reads "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, rejects the sanitized narratives of the moral and intellectual purity of transness meant to please the cis gaze. Instead, it delves into a conversation around the trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling, fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia as a way to map the emotional terrain of trans survival."—Shondaland "The book provides an insider's view of the bleaker and more frustrating aspects of transition, too often downplayed since transgender people were forcibly enlisted as combatants in the so-called culture wars."—Boston Review "Malatino’s argument is firmly grounded in current trans, queer, and feminist theory, while it invokes the methods of poststructural critique and phenomenological interrogation."—CHOICE "Reading Hil Malatino’s Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad offered me permission to see my life and the terror of this current political moment with more honesty."—X-Tra

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Book SynopsisSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature.Following decades of activism for LGBTQ+ rights, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Openly queer or transgender writers such as Kim Bi, Sang Young Park, and Yi Seoyoung are now receiving national and international attention. But the rich variety of queer Korean writing also extends into the past, as the nine stories in this volume show.Beginning with contemporary works of fiction by Kim, Park, and Yi and reaching back through the last century, this collection places expressions of queerness in historical and cultural context. It explores the sometimes problematic norms found in the stories and also considers the potential these texts hold for destabilizing binaries of sex and gender. Featuring works by the canonical authors Yi Kwangsu, Yi Kiyŏng, Ch'oe Chŏnghŭi, and O Chŏnghŭi and works by Yu Sŭngjin and Kim Sunyŏng that have been recovered from archives, this collection reflects the diversity of modern Korean literature.This volume contains the following works: "Yundo ga torawatta" (2017), "Sam-hangnyŏn i-ban" (2016), "Haesut'ang" (2006), "Sanjo" (1970), "I chŏlmang sok e purimch'igo" (1965), "Pom" (1950), selections from the novel Pom (1940), "Ŏnni, chŏn tallara ro" (1933), and "Yun Kwangho" (1918).

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Book SynopsisSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature.Following decades of activism for LGBTQ+ rights, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Openly queer or transgender writers such as Kim Bi, Sang Young Park, and Yi Seoyoung are now receiving national and international attention. But the rich variety of queer Korean writing also extends into the past, as the nine stories in this volume show.Beginning with contemporary works of fiction by Kim, Park, and Yi and reaching back through the last century, this collection places expressions of queerness in historical and cultural context. It explores the sometimes problematic norms found in the stories and also considers the potential these texts hold for destabilizing binaries of sex and gender. Featuring works by the canonical authors Yi Kwangsu, Yi Kiyŏng, Ch'oe Chŏnghŭi, and O Chŏnghŭi and works by Yu Sŭngjin and Kim Sunyŏng that have been recovered from archives, this collection reflects the diversity of modern Korean literature.This volume contains the following works: "Yundo Is Back" (2017), "My Queer Year of Junior High" (2016), "Saltwater Baths" (2006), "Traditional Solo" (1970), "Struggling amid This Despair" (1965), "Spring" (1950), selections from the novel Spring (1940), "Dear Sister, I'm Off to the Moon" (1933), and "Yun Kwangho" (1918).

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Book SynopsisA 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Title From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of sexuality. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the public. Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic transgender community. This book uncovers threads of connection between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands to discover the people who influenced the work of authorities like Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with their clinical presentations, but also with their personal relationships. It explores the ethical and analytical challenges that come with the study of what was once private, secret, or unacceptable to say. With more than 170 colour and black and white illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender history.Table of Contents Introduction Annette F. Timm, Michael Thomas Taylor, Alex Bakker, and Rainer Herrn illustration Practices in the First Magazine for Transvestites, Das 3. Geshlect (The Third Sex) Rainer Herrn Visual Rhetorics of Transgender History Michael Thomas Taylor "I am so grateful to all you men of medicine:" Trans Cirlces of Knowledge of Intimacy Annette F. Timm In the Shadows of Society: Trans People in the Netherlands - the 1950s Alex Bakker Exhibiting Trans History Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, and Alex Bakker Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Making of a Man is the personal journey from female to male of writer and philosopher Maxim Februari. A frank, clear account of the many issues and questions of sex reassignment, this book is an intimate, moving, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking narration of sex change.

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Book SynopsisWritten for entry-level survey courses in queer or LGBTQ+ Studies for students from all majors, this engaging text covers a wide range of topics. Early chapters consider the meaning of “queer” and examine identities such as trans, bi, and intersex. Intersections between sexuality/gender expression and other identities such as race, ethnicity, and class are also examined. The book then reviews life experiences such as families, friendship, religion and spirituality, health, and politics through the lens of queerness.Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries:-Engages undergraduates with a narrative that applies key ideas to their own lives and experiences-Questions various binaries (“either/or” pairings) to help students examine their own sexual identity and gender expression-Reviews foundational concepts from queer theory and queer history to create a deeper understanding of the concepts-Emphasizes an intersectionality approach that demonstrates how one’s identity is the product of multiple characteristics such as sexuality, gender, race, class, and dis/ability-Uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing from the social and natural sciences, humanities, and arts to provide a broad overview of perspectives-Details an individual or an event in Spotlight on sections to highlight the experiences of queer people. -Provides questions for class discussion or field activities in Issues for Investigation sections that apply the ideas covered in the chapter-Allows instructors to shape the class with different foci using the stand-alone chapters in Part III-Features an Instructor’s resource manual available to adopters with 20+ PowerPoint slides for each chapter, sample syllabi for a variety of courses, teaching tips for using the Spotlight On and Issues for Investigation sections and the suggested readings, a test bank with objective and essay questions, and student aids such as keywords, chapter outlines and summaries, and learning objectivesDesigned for undergraduate courses in queer or LGBT+ Studies requiring no prerequisites, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries also serves as an excellent supplement in courses on queer theory or history, or on sexuality, gender, and women’s studies.Trade ReviewWith this book, a leading expert in queer studies has effectively synthesized and explained relevant information about this area. This book is timely, original, and distinctly understandable. It could easily be adopted in advanced college courses focused on queer studies, especially given the volume’s accessibility. I appreciate the conversational tone, the coherent structure, and the relevant and practical examples. -- Tony Adams, Bradley UniversityBruce Henderson is a master storyteller. In Queer Studies, he effortlessly guides us through a plethora of complex subjects, including education, politics, religion, and the arts. His eloquent, accessible language allows us to see these myriad subjects queerly anew. I’ll be teaching my ‘Gender and Communication’ students this brilliant, immensely readable book for years to come. -- Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State UniversityThis text is a much needed and invaluable resource offering a solid and thorough overview of queer studies, with an attention to the most up-to-date research, as well as foundational scholarship. Its intersectional approach makes it an important contribution and intervention in the teaching of queer studies. Material is presented in a variety of ways that are accessible to a wide variety of readers and various types of learners in queer studies, critical sexualities, and gender studies courses. -- Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityHenderson takes an engaging approach in this impressively comprehensive exploration into the quickly expanding universe of queer studies. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses focused on understanding queer theory and its application to the daily lives of queer folx, Henderson deftly weaves together challenging theorists, historical moments, and popular culture in ways that push the reader to new ways of considering complex issues. Henderson has created a text that should become a staple in foundational queer studies texts. -- Noam Ostrander, DePaul UniversityFeaturing a comprehensive but accessible coverage of queer studies, this book reviews a number of topics, ranging from language to schooling to citizenship. It presents a thorough discussion about key issues and important scholarly figures pertaining to queer studies. The author incorporates a number of diverse queer scholars and pays close attention to their differing theoretical and identity standpoints with care. The discussions in each chapter are rich and the examples are culturally relevant and thought-provoking. -- Ahmet Atay, College of WoosterGeared to introductory college level teaching, this eminently readable textbook explains sophisticated ideas in a way geared to students as yet unfamiliar with the field and its often dense language. Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries delivers on its eponymous promise, taking students by the hand into complex deconstructive territory with gentle guidance while offering balanced coverage of the key terms, historiographies, debates, and political issues in the field. -- Jonathan D. Katz, University of PennsylvaniaHistorical in its rigorous genealogy of terms and ideas, playful in its uptake of popular culture, and accessible in its easy narration of complex critical theory, Queer Studies is a genuinely interdisciplinary teaching text. Especially productive for class discussions are the various “spotlights” that offer unique case studies to illustrate difficult concepts and scholarly debates. -- Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts UniversityQueer Studies reviews academic theories and research and translates them in a way that is accessible to undergraduates with no prior background in queer theory. Another strength is the attention to race, ethnicity, and class throughout the book. Henderson’s use of many different texts including academic work, examples from popular media, literature, the lived experiences of queer communities and people, and current events will engage undergraduates. The book covers an impressive range of contexts including school, family, health, religion, and citizenship in a thorough way. -- Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-LincolnQueer Studies is an invaluable tool to teach queer studies in the current academic context. Addressing the challenges of a constantly changing field, Henderson introduces an amazing variety of resources, which he presents and explains in a direct, warm, and accessible style. -- Mat Fournier, Ithaca CollegeFluidly written in an accessible style...highly recommended. * Choice *This textbook is highly recommended for introductory undergraduate queer studies courses. * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Queering “Queering”: A Way of Seeing/Experiencing/KnowingPart I. Queering Language1. Queering Language: Words and WorldsPart II. Queering Identity2. Queering Desire: Knowing “Feeling”3. Queering Identifties: From “I” to “We”4. Queering Bodies: Transgender and Intersex Lives5. Queering Privilege: Whiteness and Class6. Queering Intersectionality: Race and EthnicityPart III. Queering Contexts7. Queering School8. Queering Sociality: Friends, Family, and Kinship9. Queering Health: Well-Being, Medicalization, and Recreation10. Queering Spirituality: Religion, Belief, and Beyond11. Queering Citizenship: Politics, Power, and JusticePart IV. Queering Imagination12. Queering Imagination: Arts, Aesthetics, and ExpressionConclusion: Imagining Utopias in Queer StudiesAppendix: Primary Texts for StudyGlossaryWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten for entry-level survey courses in queer or LGBTQ+ Studies for students from all majors, this engaging text covers a wide range of topics. Early chapters consider the meaning of “queer” and examine identities such as trans, bi, and intersex. Intersections between sexuality/gender expression and other identities such as race, ethnicity, and class are also examined. The book then reviews life experiences such as families, friendship, religion and spirituality, health, and politics through the lens of queerness.Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries:-Engages undergraduates with a narrative that applies key ideas to their own lives and experiences-Questions various binaries (“either/or” pairings) to help students examine their own sexual identity and gender expression-Reviews foundational concepts from queer theory and queer history to create a deeper understanding of the concepts-Emphasizes an intersectionality approach that demonstrates how one’s identity is the product of multiple characteristics such as sexuality, gender, race, class, and dis/ability-Uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing from the social and natural sciences, humanities, and arts to provide a broad overview of perspectives-Details an individual or an event in Spotlight on sections to highlight the experiences of queer people. -Provides questions for class discussion or field activities in Issues for Investigation sections that apply the ideas covered in the chapter-Allows instructors to shape the class with different foci using the stand-alone chapters in Part III-Features an Instructor’s resource manual available to adopters with 20+ PowerPoint slides for each chapter, sample syllabi for a variety of courses, teaching tips for using the Spotlight On and Issues for Investigation sections and the suggested readings, a test bank with objective and essay questions, and student aids such as keywords, chapter outlines and summaries, and learning objectivesDesigned for undergraduate courses in queer or LGBT+ Studies requiring no prerequisites, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries also serves as an excellent supplement in courses on queer theory or history, or on sexuality, gender, and women’s studies.Trade ReviewWith this book, a leading expert in queer studies has effectively synthesized and explained relevant information about this area. This book is timely, original, and distinctly understandable. It could easily be adopted in advanced college courses focused on queer studies, especially given the volume’s accessibility. I appreciate the conversational tone, the coherent structure, and the relevant and practical examples. -- Tony Adams, Bradley UniversityBruce Henderson is a master storyteller. In Queer Studies, he effortlessly guides us through a plethora of complex subjects, including education, politics, religion, and the arts. His eloquent, accessible language allows us to see these myriad subjects queerly anew. I’ll be teaching my ‘Gender and Communication’ students this brilliant, immensely readable book for years to come. -- Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State UniversityThis text is a much needed and invaluable resource offering a solid and thorough overview of queer studies, with an attention to the most up-to-date research, as well as foundational scholarship. Its intersectional approach makes it an important contribution and intervention in the teaching of queer studies. Material is presented in a variety of ways that are accessible to a wide variety of readers and various types of learners in queer studies, critical sexualities, and gender studies courses. -- Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityHenderson takes an engaging approach in this impressively comprehensive exploration into the quickly expanding universe of queer studies. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses focused on understanding queer theory and its application to the daily lives of queer folx, Henderson deftly weaves together challenging theorists, historical moments, and popular culture in ways that push the reader to new ways of considering complex issues. Henderson has created a text that should become a staple in foundational queer studies texts. -- Noam Ostrander, DePaul UniversityFeaturing a comprehensive but accessible coverage of queer studies, this book reviews a number of topics, ranging from language to schooling to citizenship. It presents a thorough discussion about key issues and important scholarly figures pertaining to queer studies. The author incorporates a number of diverse queer scholars and pays close attention to their differing theoretical and identity standpoints with care. The discussions in each chapter are rich and the examples are culturally relevant and thought-provoking. -- Ahmet Atay, College of WoosterGeared to introductory college level teaching, this eminently readable textbook explains sophisticated ideas in a way geared to students as yet unfamiliar with the field and its often dense language. Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries delivers on its eponymous promise, taking students by the hand into complex deconstructive territory with gentle guidance while offering balanced coverage of the key terms, historiographies, debates, and political issues in the field. -- Jonathan D. Katz, University of PennsylvaniaHistorical in its rigorous genealogy of terms and ideas, playful in its uptake of popular culture, and accessible in its easy narration of complex critical theory, Queer Studies is a genuinely interdisciplinary teaching text. Especially productive for class discussions are the various “spotlights” that offer unique case studies to illustrate difficult concepts and scholarly debates. -- Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts UniversityQueer Studies reviews academic theories and research and translates them in a way that is accessible to undergraduates with no prior background in queer theory. Another strength is the attention to race, ethnicity, and class throughout the book. Henderson’s use of many different texts including academic work, examples from popular media, literature, the lived experiences of queer communities and people, and current events will engage undergraduates. The book covers an impressive range of contexts including school, family, health, religion, and citizenship in a thorough way. -- Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-LincolnQueer Studies is an invaluable tool to teach queer studies in the current academic context. Addressing the challenges of a constantly changing field, Henderson introduces an amazing variety of resources, which he presents and explains in a direct, warm, and accessible style. -- Mat Fournier, Ithaca CollegeFluidly written in an accessible style...highly recommended. * Choice *This textbook is highly recommended for introductory undergraduate queer studies courses. * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Queering “Queering”: A Way of Seeing/Experiencing/KnowingPart I. Queering Language1. Queering Language: Words and WorldsPart II. Queering Identity2. Queering Desire: Knowing “Feeling”3. Queering Identifties: From “I” to “We”4. Queering Bodies: Transgender and Intersex Lives5. Queering Privilege: Whiteness and Class6. Queering Intersectionality: Race and EthnicityPart III. Queering Contexts7. Queering School8. Queering Sociality: Friends, Family, and Kinship9. Queering Health: Well-Being, Medicalization, and Recreation10. Queering Spirituality: Religion, Belief, and Beyond11. Queering Citizenship: Politics, Power, and JusticePart IV. Queering Imagination12. Queering Imagination: Arts, Aesthetics, and ExpressionConclusion: Imagining Utopias in Queer StudiesAppendix: Primary Texts for StudyGlossaryWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first study of trans* representation across European television. Trans* visibility has reached a peak in recent years, so much so, that we can state that we are witnessing a primetime, or trans*time, in television and digital streaming series. This visibility has occurred concurrently with a process of social popularization and academic legitimization of the series. .Paradoxically, trans* people face ever-mounting discrimination, insidious violence, and fatal murder rates. Trans*Time is the first international, media, and comparative approach to the representation of trans* characters in series in Europe.

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Book SynopsisGender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world’s youth has aroused popular interest in the Japanese approach to gender and sexuality. In a sense, this engaging volume brings these two worlds together. It builds on earlier scholarly work and discusses normative and non-normative gender and sexualities in one volume. The chapters deftly bring together and engage with theories of gender presentation, performance and performativity. However, they are also solid ethnographic studies, extensively researched and clearly argued. Through careful attention to lived realities, they allow readers to understand not only how gender is constructed and commodified in contemporary Japan but also how it is presented and performed in different contexts. At the same time, youth culture resonates through the volume, which is mainly written by early-career scholars with a largely undergraduate and postgraduate readership in mind. With compelling studies, evocatively presented, this volume may well go on to become an important resource on gender and sexuality in Japan. Moreover, with its many insights into how ethnographic methodologies might best be employed, the book has much to offer students and scholars working outside of Japanese studies as well.

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Book SynopsisGender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world’s youth has aroused popular interest in the Japanese approach to gender and sexuality. In a sense, this engaging volume brings these two worlds together. It builds on earlier scholarly work and discusses normative and non-normative gender and sexualities in one volume. The chapters deftly bring together and engage with theories of gender presentation, performance and performativity. However, they are also solid ethnographic studies, extensively researched and clearly argued. Through careful attention to lived realities, they allow readers to understand not only how gender is constructed and commodified in contemporary Japan but also how it is presented and performed in different contexts. At the same time, youth culture resonates through the volume, which is mainly written by early-career scholars with a largely undergraduate and postgraduate readership in mind. With compelling studies, evocatively presented, this volume may well go on to become an important resource on gender and sexuality in Japan. Moreover, with its many insights into how ethnographic methodologies might best be employed, the book has much to offer students and scholars working outside of Japanese studies as well.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of rhetoric, gender, class, and sexuality. More important, chapters also attend to the intersections of constructs of queerness with race, class, ability, and neurodiversity. In so doing, the book acknowledges the many debts contemporary queer theory has to work by scholars of color, feminists, and activists, inside and outside the academy. The first book of its kind, the handbook traces and documents the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry, new trajectories in scholarship, and new modalities and methods oTrade Review"The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric does exactly what a handbook should do: it challenges the boundaries of the field while providing parameters, it provokes, it intervenes, and it offers something of interest for almost everyone. Smart, naughty, and cutting edge, both new and established voices come together to create a queer and trans rhetorical theory agenda that will be impossible to ignore for many years to come." - Karma R. Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities and The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance "This handbook will be the definitive overview of the fabulous, diverse, and rigorous work in queer rhetorics for years to come. Contributors are well-attuned to the important ways in which identities and communities materialize in and through rhetoric, while simultaneously—through provocations, interventions, and speculations. Queer futures like the ones José Esteban Muñoz imagined when he encouraged us to cruise utopia are on full display in this indispensable volume." - Robert McRuer, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance"From the erotic to the fabulous, the resilient to the radical, this comprehensive collection maps the current landscapes of queer rhetorics as it also makes space for an un-imagined future. Queer rhetorics emerge here in all their varied possibilities." - Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado BoulderTable of Contents1. Introduction HISTORIES, RE-HISTORIES, ARCHIVES 2. Undoing Happiness with Pleasure: Rhetorics of Affect in The Ladder 3. Retroactivism and the Institutional Archive 4. Bisexual Invisibility, David Bowie, and the Prospects of Queer Memory 5. The Ready-Made Queerness of Greco-Roman Rhetoric 6. Printing a Queer Identity: Edward Carpenter, Ioläus, and the Affirmation of Same-Sex Desires in the Nineteenth Century 7. Re-Storying Trans* Zines 8. An Archive of Disposability: (Trans)gender and Sexuality in South Africa 9. Re-Historicizing the "Lacking South": Archiving Queer Memory and Sexual Visibilities in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia Through the Invisible Histories Project 10. The Trans Rhetorical Practice of Archive Building METHODOLOGIES 11. Wobbly Words and Transnational Queer Slippages 12. Queer Topoi: Writing "Like" Sedgwick 13. Methodologies Not Yet Known: The Queer Case for Relational Research 14. Blake Brockington’s Rhetorical Afterlife: Fugitive Black Trans* Data and Queer Kairotic Methodology 15. Histories in (Trans)lation: Xie Jianshun and the Potential and Perils of Trans Historiography 16. Subatomic Literacies and Queer Quantum Storytelling 17. Between the Sheets: Gavin Arthur’s Sexual Circulation 18. Queer Ecovisual Rhetorics 19. Queering Spaces COMMUNITIES 20. "Let’s Get Some Family Chosen": Refugees, Homonationalism, and Queer Family Rhetoric 21. Queer Memes as Rhetorical Scenes 22. Womyn’s Words: Rhetorical Practices of Lesbians in the Tampa Bay Area 23. Mountain Dirt(y) Queer Rhetorics: Making Appalachian Queerness Visible 24. Queer Rhetorics of Resistance in HIV Healthcare 25. "People Can’t Say I’m a Man, They Can’t Say I’m a Woman": Reality Expansion in the Kewpie Collection 26. Converging in a Room of Our Own: The Ladder, Autostraddle, and Queer Convergence in Online Communities IDENTITIES 27. Prescribe for Me, Doctor, for I Have Sex: Rhetorics of Empowerment, Queer Shame, and the Confessional in PrEP Prescribing 28. Making Nothing Out of Something: Asexuality and the Rhetorics of Silence and Absence 29. The Queer Potential of Bisexual Rhetorics 30. Fuck (Gay) Racism: Queer Asian American Rhetorics of Abe Kim’s TikTok 31. Anthos, Bottoms, and Anal Sex in Troye Sivan’s "Bloom" 32. How Much Does It Take? Persuasion and the Stakes of Will in The Transformation 33. Irreversible Damage: Trans Masculine Affectability and the White Family 34. Disidentification (as a Survival Strategy for Religious Trauma) 35. Resilient Closets, Addressivity, and Opening Pandora’s Box 36. Rhetoric of the Invisible (or, How Bisexual People Demand to be Seen) PROVOCATIONS & INTERVENTIONS 37. Sexual Assaults, Queer Panics: Gemma Watts and Reynhard Sinaga 38. Anti-Normativity Under Duress: An Intersectional Intervention in Queer Rhetoric 39. Lettering me Queer: An Open Letter to Gurlesque 40. Chronicity Rhetoric as Queercrip Activism 41. Rhetorical Work: Genre Fluidity as a Queer Rhetorical Practice of Activists: a Play/Chapter in Multiple Acts 42. On Taking the Bottom’s Stance, or Not Your Typical Submissive 43."Soft Armor" for Ugly Bodies: The Radical Visibility of QueerCrip Fashion 44. Dear Queer Memoir Writers… 45. Queer Rhetorics as Intervention Methods: The Curious Case of Conversion Violence SPECULATIONS 46. The Fabulous Rhetorics of Queer Inhumanity: Speculating with Queer Inhuman Figures to Restory Queerphobic Histories 47. The Queer Babadook: Circulation of Queer Affects 48. Rhetorics of Gay Future and Queer Futurity: Strategies of Disruption 49. (Queer) Optimism Ain’t (Im)Possible 50. Between Queer and Digital: Toward an Understanding of the Rhetoric of Digital Queerdom 51. Queering the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: Bodies, Embodiment, and the Future 52. Cuir-ing Queer: Speculations on Latin American Notions of Queerness 53. Queer Hauntings, Queer Renewings 54. Pathological Desire, Perverse Erotics, and Paraphiliac Entelechies

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how Christian doctrines of creation and personhood respond to and are reframed by variant gender and gender transition. It offers a positive, non-oppositional account of gender transition not framed as deficit. It takes seriously trans people's self-understandings and analyses their implications for Christian theology and ethics.

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Book SynopsisExamining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions.Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making—from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking—are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective projects that reclaim and reinvent tradition in contemporary North America, both within and beyond the frames of art. Levine argues that, in a time of political reaction and mass uprisings, the subversion of the traditional is galvanizing artists, activists, musicians, and people in everyday life. He shows that this takes place in strikingly different ways for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in settler colonies. Paradoxically, experimenting with practices that have been abandoned or suppressed can offer powerful resources for creation and struggle in the present.Lev

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Book SynopsisA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookShortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardsAn Indigo Best Book of 2020Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence) The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay village were, perhaps, linked. When the leads ran dry, the search was shut down, on paper classified as open but suspended. By 2015, investigative journalist Justin Ling had begun to retrace investigators' steps, convinced there was evidence of a serial killer. Meanwhile, more men would go missing, and police would continue to deny that there was a threat to the community. In early 2019, landscaper Bru

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Book SynopsisAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships—are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the “A” of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of as

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Book Synopsis30 Queer Lives explores the lives, struggles and successes of LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders. From the famous — Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr, Chlöe Swarbrick — to the less well known, these 30 stories encourage empathy and understanding, challenge stereotypes, and offer courage and hope.Table of Contents6 Introduction 11 Grant Robertson 21 Takunda Muzondiwa 31 Leilani Tominiko 39 Nathan Joe 49 Eliana Rubashkyn 57 Scott Mathieson 67 Henrietta Bollinger 75 Andy Davies 87 Sawyer Hawker 97 James Dobson 107 Taupuruariki ‘Ariki’ Brightwell 121 Jonny Rudduck 135 Chlöe Swarbrick 145 David Sar Shalom Abadi 157 Sarah Bickerton 165 Peter Macky 179 Carole Beu 191 Gareth Farr 199 Shaneel Shavneel Lal 209 Tom Sainsbury 217 Six 231 Robbie Manson 241 Charlotte Goodyear 251 Meagan Goodman 261 Edward Cowley 271 Ross and John Palethorpe 285 Ramon Te Wake 295 Victor Rodger 303 Loughlan Prior 313 Ann Shelton 326 Further reading 327 About the author

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Book SynopsisSet on a small and struggling family dairy operation in southern Minnesota, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen follows fifteen-year-old Carl as he confronts his crush on Andy Olnan, a handsome and confident but secretive “city boy” recently transplanted to farm life from Minneapolis who may or may not share the same feelings. At the same time, Carl and his father clash over the future of their farm, a legacy of Carl’s late mother: how do they honor her dream for the family while also ensuring financial security? Carl discovers his own resilience in the face of grief, adult-sized decisions, and unrequited love, and along the way learns to cope with both the challenges and rewards of being different.Trade Review"Carl Paulsen wants to belong to this world, broken though it may be. There is a magic in this book, magic that makes us feel we are in this young man's heart as he struggles to find his place in the world. The words shimmer with gentle, heartbreaking empathy. The result is a beautiful piece of fiction, sure to make anyone who reads it feel less alone." N. West Moss, author of Flesh and Blood and The Subway Stops at Bryant Park" Whoever you are, wherever you're from, get ready to fall in love with Carl Paulsen. Gary Eldon Peter's hero is smart, charming, modest (but opinionated where it counts) and, speaking of falling in love, he's gay. A new boy at school catches Carl's eye and seems to return his interest. Or does he? Carl's roller-coaster of a semester is warmly familiar and yet full of surprising twists and turns. This book will have huge appeal across age groups and backgrounds." David Pratt, author of Wallaçonia"Fearlessly exploring the nuances of love and friendship, Peter's characters navigate life's inevitable disappointments with humor and hope. Teenagers will love this story of vulnerability and courage as Carl finds the strength to act on his own feelings, and subsequently realizes his family and friends' love for him is profoundly rooted in acceptance." Carol Dines, author of This Distance We Call Love and The Queen's Soprano" With insight and grace, Gary Eldon Peter explores the big questions: Who am I? Who will I be? And who will I let truly know me? This novel's gentleness is underlain with the absolute determination of a quiet teenager's quest for self-identity." Alison McGhee, author of Where We Are and What I Leave Behind"Meet Carl Paulsen -- he's not rich, urban, or 'fabulous.' He's a farm boy devoted to his cows, his younger sister, and his widowed father (in that order). When Carl meets Andy Olnan, the new boy in town, everything suddenly changes, just like that moment in West Side Story when Maria meets Tony. I absolutely loved this fresh, unpredictable, and heartrending-but-hopeful book. Funny, sad, closeted farm kid Carl Paulsen is my new best friend." Brian Malloy, author of The Year of Ice and After Francesco" Once I picked up The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen , I had a hard time putting it down. I fell hard for Carl and his very active but pragmatic imagination, his sense of irony and humor, his clear-eyed view of the world. And he does love his cows!" Judith Katz, author of The Escape Artist and Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound

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Book SynopsisIn this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice.So often, Faye argues, trans people are understood as a "side issue," the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized debate which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.With skill, rigor, and heart, Faye uncovers the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In this compellingly readable study, she explores issues of class, family, housing, healthcare, sex work, the prison system, and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities. What she finds, ultimately, is that when we fight for trans liberation, we fight for a better world for us all.Trade ReviewA clear, intelligent, experience-based explanation of why the scapegoating of trans people must stop, while enthusiastically encouraging more trans people to join feminist, anti-racist movements for economic and social change. -- Sarah SchulmanShon Faye has written a book that models clarity in its writing and its moral vision... One learns here how to distinguish between arguments that merit a response and those which should be refused because they are either cruel or stupid. This is a monumental work and utterly convincing - crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be. -- Judith ButlerA powerful new call for trans liberation. -- Amia Srinivasan * The New Yorker *A cold, hard, and, most importantly, convincing look into the facts surrounding trans rights both past and present, as well as a moving and impressively comprehensive overview of trans life... As well as being a manifesto of sorts, arguing for the benefits of trans liberation to society at large, The Transgender Issue is a vital resource for readers outside of the U.K. to understand just what is happening there in terms of trans rights-and how to bring about a long-overdue change to the conversation. * Vogue *An inspiring call for coalition ... Shon Faye shows with courage and clarity that the struggle of trans people is the struggle of us all. This book is a game-changer. -- Owen JonesFrom the very first words... it is clear the reader is in the hands of someone with absolute clarity about the world we live in, and the one we deserve. Shon refutes those who seek to turn trans people's lives into a subject of debate. Instead, she shows us that liberation for trans people is intimately tied to the struggle for workers' rights, an end to the violent systems of policing and prisons, and bodily autonomy through universal healthcare. Refusing to water down the radicalism and urgency of her demands, Shon's argument for justice is both a heartfelt outcry against injustice, and an utterly convincing vision for change rooted in analysis and research. -- Florence Welch * @BetweenTwoBooks *Shon Faye makes a compelling case that transgender issues are inexorably linked with other social justice causes. The result is a bold and pragmatic guide for challenging societal transphobia comprehensively and intersectionally. -- Julia Serano, author of Sexed UpMy god, this book couldn't be more timely here in the USA. I hope that all of my trans family come to understand from this book that no matter how hard others try to make us an issue, we are first and always people, individuals, and brave ones at that. -- Kate Bornstein, author of Gender OutlawWriting with astonishing patience, clarity, and ethical force, Shon Faye has gifted us an essential primer for our times. The Transgender Issue calls us into a much-needed solidarity, and makes the project of constructing and inhabiting a more free and just world for everyone feel urgent, possible, and exhilarating. -- Maggie Nelson, author of On FreedomFaye writes with admirable clarity, and, accordingly, her book is accessible to general readers....It sheds essential light on a subject that is widely misunderstood-driven, unfortunately, by too many people's ignorance, which, one hopes, this volume will help correct. * Booklist *

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