Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities

by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (Contributor), Sarah Tobias (Editor), Genny Beemyn (Contributor)

Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms.   

 

Trans Studies is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. Taking an intersectional approach, this theoretically sophisticated book deeply grounded in real-world concerns bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.

 

Genres: Gender, Queer, Nonfiction

270 pages, Hardcover

Published March 22, 2016

Reviews

[Josh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Since I fundamentally disagree with almost all of the presuppositions upon which trans studies is built, it's not surprising that I disagree with the arguments presented here. However, there were a few moments of clarity spread throughout the book that articulate a coherent trans model of what it means to be a human being. Even where disagreement is present, clarity is valuable. That said, "clarity" would not accurately describe most of the writing in this book...

[Mills College Library]

306.768 T7727 2016