ABSTRACT
This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to the emergence of trans lives and discourses. Examining the ways in which the emergence of trans challenges, develops and extends understandings of gender and reconfigures everyday lives, it asks how trans lives and discourses articulate and contest with issues of rights, education and popular common-sense. With attention to the question of how trans has shaped and been shaped by new modes of social action and networking, The Emergence of Trans also explores what the proliferation of trans representation across multiple media forms and public discourse suggests about the wider cultural moment, and considers the challenges presented for health care, social policy, gender and sexuality theory, and everyday articulations of identity. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of gender and sexuality studies, as well as activists, professionals and individuals interested in trans lives and discourses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part I|49 pages
Trans genealogies
chapter 1|17 pages
In the shadow of eugenics
part II|53 pages
Trans as everyday culture
chapter 8|13 pages
Sticks and stones break our bones, and words are damaging
part III|33 pages
Trans in popular representation
chapter 9|16 pages
Response and responsibility
chapter 10|15 pages
‘Girl brain … boy body’
part IV|54 pages
Trans epistemologies