Terrorizing Gender - Transgender Visibility Surveillance Practices of U.s. Security State

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List of contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: A Transgender Tipping Point?    
1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor    
2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire    
3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life    
4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign    
5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist    
Coda: The Perils of Transgender Visibility    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index

About the author

Mia Fischer is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver.  
 

Summary

The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. In Terrorizing Gender Mia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress.

Product details

• Authors: Mia Fischer
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781496206749
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0674-9
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Gender Studies: Gruppen