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Informationen zum Autor Edward Burlton Davies has undertaken research at Lancaster and Manchester Metropolitan Universities. His research interests focus on third wave feminism! womanism! gender variance and reconstruction of gender law. Zusammenfassung Third Wave Feminism and Transgender considers what positive outcomes on society in general, and the law as it pertains to gender in particular, may emerge from the identification of and cooperation between third wave feminism and transgender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication * Contents * CHAPTER 1: Introduction – Potential for a Transgender/3rd Wave Feminist Coalition * 1.1 Investigating Connections: Potential for a Coalition * 1.2 Building Connections: How to Form a Coalition * 1.3 Conclusion * CHAPTER 2: Explaining Trans Lives - Silence and Secrecy * Introduction * 2.1 Silence and Secrecy * 2.2 Infantilisation and the ‘Refusal to Grow Up’ * 2.3 Which Trans Identities are Real? * 2.4 Conclusion * CHAPTER 3: The 3rd Wave – Career Feminism or Quiet Revolution? * Introduction * 3.1 ‘Personally Political Postmodern Identity’ * 3.2 Contradiction * 3.3 Inter-Wave Philosophy and Maternal Relations * 3.4 Womanism: Excluded but Inclusive * 3.5 The 3rd Wave: An Open and Evolving Discourse? * 3.6 Conclusion * CHAPTER 4: Legal Review - The View from Somewhere * Introduction * 4.1 Radical Struggles for Single Functional Issue Legislation * 4.2 Any Gender You Want as Long as it’s Heteronormative * 4.3 ‘Othering’ * 4.4 Agency and Communion * 4.5 Postconventional Ethics? * 4.6 Conclusion * CHAPTER 5: 3rd Wave Philosophy – Dialogic Negotiation * Introduction * 5.1 Ethical Framework: Setting up and Maintaining the Transstudy * 5.2 Philosophical Framework: Queer Inspired 3rd Wave Feminism * 5.3 Why Narratives? * 5.4 Semanalysis Deriving from the Semiotic * 5.5 Construction of the Critical Discourse Analysis Framework * 5.6 Creation of the Reconstructing Discourses * 5.7 Conclusion * CHAPTER 6: Identity Essentialism to Subjectivity-In-Process – The Whole Trans Person * Introduction * 6.1 Which Gender Variant Subjectivities are Real? * 6.2 Political Subjectivity? * 6.3 The Whole Trans Person * 6.4 Identity as a Process: Subjectivity * 6.5 Conclusion * CHAPTER 7: Closed and Static Texts to Open and Evolving Narratives – Articulation and Openness * Introduction * 7.1 Voice * 7.2 Passing * 7.3 Choice * 7.4 ‘A Movement of Their Own’? * 7.5 Conclusion * CHAPTER 8: Exclusion to Inclusion – Postdifference for ‘Others’ * Introduction * 8.1 Social Cleansing * 8.2 Immigrants and Refugees * 8.3 Maternal Relations * 8.4 Finding Ourselves - Epiphanies * 8.5 Conclusion * CHAPTER 9: Recommendations – Ghosts in the Machine * Introduction * 9.1 Maternal Relations * 9.2 Genre and Genealogy * 9.3 Postdifference * 9.4 Practical Applications of the Recommendations * Bibliography * Appendix * List of Transstudy Topics * Table of Cases * Table of Legislation * ...