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

2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association 

Mia Fischer connects media coverage with state regulation of transgender people to show how, despite their increased visibility in national discourse, dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are used to justify, even normalize, state-sanctioned violence against transgender communities.

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.  
 

Product details

• Authors: Mia Fischer
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781496230539
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3053-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories