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Book SynopsisToby Beauchamp positions surveillance as central to the understanding of transgender politics to show how contemporary security practices extend into everyday gendered lives.
Trade Review"[
Going Stealth] accomplishes the best of what we imagine theory to be good for—making sense of our everyday experiences, grounding personal interactions with the state in histories of structural oppression, and illuminating the broader context of our banal negotiations between dignity, resilience, convenience, resistance, politics-inpractice, and privilege. . . .
Going Stealth is a helpful contribution to multiple literatures, and it demonstrates the ways in which robust interdisciplinarity also requires solidarity in scholarship." -- Lyndsey P. Beutin * Society & Space *
"For academics and those with the wherewithal to struggle through it there's a great deal of intellectual value to be found in a book such as this." -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *
“Going Stealth is … topical and urgent, delving into contemporary hot-button issues of gendered bathrooms and TSA screening practices.”
-- Elise Morrison * TDR: The Drama Review *
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Going Stealth is written into scholarship that moves transgender studies beyond concentration on identity. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to research at the juncture between gender, sexuality, race, disability and surveillance studies.
Going Stealth should appeal to any scholar in cultural studies, sociology and border studies." -- Iwo Nord * European Journal of Women's Studies *
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Going Stealth is an enjoyable read, offering timely reflection on security, conformity, fear, citizenship, and difference in our turbulent times." -- Sara L. Crawley * Gender & Society *
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Going Stealth will be useful for expanding on and bringing together the works of transgender studies and cultural studies, in particular appealing to sexuality scholars in general. This book will be of interest to those who are interested in the intersections between visibility, security, gender deviance, dis/ability, race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation/citizenship." -- Kerry Scroggie, Amanda Brown & Esther Rothblum * Journal of Homosexuality *
“Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a careful meshwork of historical and political analysis, attentive to the problems of existing critical frames.”
-- Tony Wei Ling * Catalyst *
“Toby Beauchamp’s
Going Stealth is a much-needed analysis into practices of state surveillance and its impact on the regulation of gender in the United States....
Going Stealth asks the reader to question not only notions of visibility but also the very desire of recognition itself.” -- Sy Simms * TSQ *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction. Suspicious Visibility 1
1. Deceptive Documents 24
2. Flying under the Radar 50
3. Bathrooms, Borders, and Biometrics 79
4. Sensitive Information in the Manning Case 107
Conclusion. On Endurance 131
Notes 141
Bibliography 173
Index 185
