Transgender Migrations - The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

Informationen zum Autor Trystan Cotten is Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Gender Studies at California State University--Stanislaus. Klappentext Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger geopolitical contexts of immigration reform, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the increased policing of national borders. The book centers trans-ing experiences, identities, and politics, and treats these identities as inextricably intertwined with other social identities, institutions, and discourses of sexuality, nationality, race and ethnicity, globalization, colonialism, and terrorism. The chapter authors explore not only the movement of bodies in, through, and across spaces and borders, but also chart the metamorphoses of these bodies in relation to migration and mobility. Zusammenfassung Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger geopolitical contexts of immigration reform, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the increased policing of national borders. The book centers trans-ing experiences, identities, and politics, and treats these identities as inextricably intertwined with other social identities, institutions, and discourses of sexuality, nationality, race and ethnicity, globalization, colonialism, and terrorism. The chapter authors explore not only the movement of bodies in, through, and across spaces and borders, but also chart the metamorphoses of these bodies in relation to migration and mobility. Transgender Migrations takes the theory documented in The Transgender Studies Reader and blows it up to a global scale. It is the logical next step for scholarship in this dynamic, emerging field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Migration and Morphing Trystan T. Cotten Part I Affective Alien(n)ations and (Re)territorialization Chapter 1: Colorful Bodies in the Multikulti Metropolis: On the Neoliberal and Punitive Bases of Trans Vitality and Victimology in the Berlin Hate Crime Debate Jin Haritaworn Chapter 2: Forging "Moral Geographies": Law, Sexual Minorities and Internal Tensions in Northern Mexico Border Towns Vek Lewis Part II Trans Aesthetics, Counterpublics and Spatiality Chapter 3: Transgender Movement(s) and Beating the Straight Flush: Building an Art of Trans Washrooms Don Romesburg Lucas Crawford Chapter 4: Queer Exteriors: Transgender Aesthetics in Early Gay and Lesbian Travel Advertising Quinn Miller Chapter 5: Spider/City/Sex Eva Hayward Part III Transectionalities: Mapping Multiple Migrations Chapter 6: Passing for White, Passing for Man: Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as Transgender Narrative C. Riley Snorton Chapter 7: Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon's Life in Motion Don Romesburg Part IV Troubling Trans- and Queer Theory Chapter 8: The Trans Travel Narrative: Provincializing Transsexuality Aren Aizura Chapter 9: TRANS/SCRIPTIONS: Home, (Trans)sexual Citizenship and Racialized Bodies Nael Bhanji ...

List of contents

Introduction: Migration and Morphing
Trystan T. Cotten

Part I

Affective Alien(n)ations and (Re)territorialization

Chapter 1: Colorful Bodies in the Multikulti Metropolis: On the Neoliberal and Punitive Bases of Trans Vitality and Victimology in the Berlin Hate Crime Debate
Jin Haritaworn

Chapter 2: Forging "Moral Geographies": Law, Sexual Minorities and Internal Tensions in Northern Mexico Border Towns
Vek Lewis

Part II

Trans Aesthetics, Counterpublics and Spatiality

Chapter 3: Transgender Movement(s) and Beating the Straight Flush: Building an Art of Trans Washrooms
Don Romesburg
Lucas Crawford

Chapter 4: Queer Exteriors: Transgender Aesthetics in Early Gay and Lesbian Travel Advertising
Quinn Miller

Chapter 5: Spider/City/Sex
Eva Hayward
Part III

Transectionalities: Mapping Multiple Migrations

Chapter 6: Passing for White, Passing for Man: Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as Transgender Narrative
C. Riley Snorton

Chapter 7: Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon's Life in Motion
Don Romesburg


Part IV

Troubling Trans- and Queer Theory

Chapter 8: The Trans Travel Narrative: Provincializing Transsexuality
Aren Aizura

Chapter 9: TRANS/SCRIPTIONS: Home, (Trans)sexual Citizenship and Racialized Bodies
Nael Bhanji

Product details

• Authors: Trystan Cotten
• Assisted by: Trystan Cotten (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2011
• EAN: 9780415888462
• ISBN: 978-0-415-88846-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Series: New Directions in American History; Print on Demand
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories