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This is both a personal book that offers an account of the author's own trans* identity and a deeply engaged study of trans* collegians that reveals the complexities of trans* identities, and how these students navigate the trans* oppression present throughout society and their institutions, create community and resilience, and establish meaning and control in a world that assumes binary genders.
List of contents
Foreword—Kristen A. Renn Acknowledgments Introduction1. Situating The Study • Interlude. Introducing My Community 2. A Review of Trans*-Related Research • Interlude. Bruised by Data 3. The Gender Binary Discourse 4. Compulsory Heterogenderism 5. Resilience as a Verb 6. The (Tiring. Labor of Practicing Trans* Genders 7. A Constellation of Kinship Networks • Interlude. An Ending Full of Beginnings 8. Implications Epilogue Afterword—Stephen John Quaye Glossary Appendix References About the Author Index
About the author
Dr. Z Nicolazzo is an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Z’s research explores how discourses of gender pervade and mediate college environments, with particular attention paid to trans people. Additionally, her latest scholarship focuses on how trans people cultivate future possible selves through digital/online platforms, as well as how higher education invests in the logics of transmisogyny. Her first book, Trans* in college: Transgender students’ strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional politics of inclusion, was awarded the 2017 American Educational Research Association Division J Publication of the Year Award, and was published by Stylus in 2017.
Summary
This book is addressed as much to trans* students themselves – offering them a frame to understand the genders that mark them as different and to address the feelings brought on by the weight of that difference – as it is to faculty, student affairs professionals, and college administrators.
