Reclaiming Genders Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle [Hardcover]

This collection of essays is an interdisciplinary work bringing together an internationally acclaimed group of transgender writers. Informed by both academic and street experiences, it considers the practical issues faced in changing the world view of gender as well as the limitations of queer, feminism and post-modernism. In a wide-ranging set of contributions, it addresses our engendered places now and what we can aim for in the future. It evaluates the mechanisms we can use to galvanize both the micro theories of gender as a personal experience of oppression and the macro theories of gender as a site of social regulation. The collection aims to take identity politics and reclaim identity for the self.

Introduction 1Kate More
Introduction 2Stephen Whittle
Part One: Becoming Trans
1. The Becoming Man: The Law's Ass BraysStephen Whittle
2. Passing Woman and Female-bodied Men: (Re)claiming FTM HistoryJason Cromwell
3. Portrait of a Transfag Drag Hag as a Young Man: The Activist Career of Louis G. SullivanSusan Stryker
4. Exceptional Locations: Transsexual TraveloguesJay Prosser
Part Two: Becoming (Trans)Active
5. Look! No, Don't! The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual MenJamison Green
6. Testimonies of HIV ActivismKate More and Sandra Laframboise with Deborah Brady
7. Talking Transgender PoliticsRoz Kaveney
8. A Proposal for Doing Transgender Theory in the AcademyMarkisha Greaney
Part Three: Thinking Transsexualims in the New Millennium
9. Trans Studies: Between a Metaphysics of Presence and AbsenceHenry S. Rubin
10. 50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the MillenniumGordene O. Mackenzie
11. What Does a Transsexual Want? The Encounter between Psychoanalysis and TranssexualismDiane Morgan
12. Never Mind the Bollocks: 1. Trans Theory in the UKKate More
13. Never Mind the Bollocks: 2. Judith Butler on Transsexuall3