“But You’re Not at All like Bertha”: Contemporary (Black) Trans* Studies and Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work”

MELUS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Mark Foster
Keyword(s):  
Trans Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
The Rich

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field. The editors’ introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy’s contributions to with numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field’s engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers.

Beyond Binaries: Trans Studies and the Global Contemporary

Art Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 82-90
Author(s):  
Sascha Crasnow
Keyword(s):  
Trans Studies

“It was like I had to fit into a category”: Care-seekers’ experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Linander ◽  
Erika Alm ◽  
Isabel Goicolea ◽  
Lisa Harryson
Keyword(s):  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
In Trans ◽  
Gender Performances ◽  
Gender Regulation ◽  
Specific Care ◽  
Queer Phenomenology ◽  
Foucauldian Analysis

The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker’s own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes called transgender people) to examine how gender performances can be regulated in trans-specific care in Sweden. The conceptual framework is inspired by trans studies, a Foucauldian analysis of power, queer phenomenology and the concept of cisnormativity. Fourteen interviews with people with trans experiences are analysed with constructivist grounded theory. The participants’ experiences indicate that gender is constructed as norm-conforming, binary and stable in trans-specific healthcare. This gendered position is resisted, negotiated and embraced by the care-seekers. Norms and discourses both inside and outside trans-specific care contribute to the regulation and limit the room for action for care-users. We conclude that a trans-specific care that has a confirming approach to its care-users, instead of the current focus on gender norm conformity, has the potential to increase the self-determination of gender performance and increase the quality of care.

scholarly journals ‘When one doesn't even exist’: Europeanization, trans* subjectivities and agency in Cyprus

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-153
Author(s):  
Nayia Kamenou
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Trans Studies

In the context of Europeanization, transnational LGBTI rights and politics discourses and paradigms interact with local ones. However, the effects of this interaction on trans* people in the margins of ‘Europe’ have received little attention. Drawing from participant observation and interviews with trans* respondents, I examine how trans* subjectivities and politics in Cyprus are shaped amidst this process. I show that institutional responses to trans* claims reinforce trans* marginalization. I find that trans* people are marginalized in, and disappointed by the normalization of, the (trans)national LGBTI movement. I argue that these factors induce alternative modes of everyday trans* politics and community organizing outside NGO structures. Therefore, this article helps decentre trans* studies’ typical focus on Western Europe, North America and Australasia, while offering an analysis of the role of Europeanization in Cypriot LGBTI politics.

Institutionalizing Trans* Studies at the University of Arizona

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-366
Author(s):  
Susan Stryker
Keyword(s):  
Future Prospects ◽  
Transgender Studies ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
In Trans ◽  
The University ◽  
Successes And Challenges

Abstract This article reports on the successes and challenges of institutionalizing trans* studies at the University of Arizona. It describes the Transgender Studies Faculty Cluster Hire Initiative of 2013–18, efforts to establish a curricular program of some sort in trans studies, barriers to achieving some of the the initiative's early goals, and future prospects for the field's institutionalization at the University of Arizona and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Critical Trans Studies in and beyond Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Yv E. Nay ◽  
Eliza Steinbock
Keyword(s):  
Trans Studies

scholarly journals The performative effects of diagnosis

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Sebastian Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
Analytical Term ◽  
Medical Diagnoses ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Trans Studies

In this article, I suggest the performative effects of diagnosis as an analytical tool to explore the transformations in people’s intimate lives that being diagnosed brings with it. As an analytical term, I understand the performative effects of diagnosis to describe trajectories in people’s intimate lives that emerge in the interplay between a person’s intimate sense of self, that is, their gendered and sexualed self-perceptions, and the logics and norms contained in medical diagnoses. I develop this term in the context of ethnographic research on Danish war veterans’ understandings of and experiences with intimacy and extrapolate it conceptually in this article through scholarship in feminist theory, trans studies, STS, and medical anthropology and sociology. The argument that I make throughout is that the performative effects of diagnosis allows scholars to explore transformations in people’s intimate lives without a foreclosure about the normative dimensions of these transformations. In that sense, rather than only asking how biopolitical and cis- and heteronormative normalcy constitutes itself, the performative effects of diagnosis provide the opportunity to explore how these dimensions are (re)configured and (un)done in and through medicalized intimacies.

“A Boy Inside It”

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-598
Author(s):  
Melina Alice Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Medical Authority ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Romance Genre ◽  
Literary Canons ◽  
The Well Of Loneliness

This essay explores Ann Bannon’s lesbian pulp series “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles” through the lens of trans studies, placing her eponymous hero in conversation with the inversion rhetoric of sexological discourse and the transgender pulp novels that circulated alongside Bannon’s texts in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the prominence of Beebo’s masculine identification, and the fact that Bannon draws heavily from Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness—now widely read as a transgender text—Beebo has yet to be read as a character that resonates within both the trans and the lesbian literary canons. Revisioning Beebo as a transmasculine character transforms our understanding of an unfolding trans-gender literary tradition, offering a bridge between Hall’s Stephen Gordon and later twentieth-century articulations of transmasculine identity and embodiment. Further, the essay suggests that Bannon’s series provides a vital intervention in the “case study” framing that dominated both transgender pulp novels and The Well by offering a vision of trans experience that, presented in the romance genre, exists outside medical authority. If we broaden the context for studying Beebo to include other contemporary trans literary genealogies, Bannon’s work becomes integral to understanding the pulp genre’s treatment of transgender themes and the reach of transgender plots and possibilities at midcentury.

Indigenist Origins

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-373
Author(s):  
Madi Day
Keyword(s):  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
Torres Strait

Abstract Indigenous queer and trans studies will be available as part of the Indigenous Studies major in the Bachelor of Arts program at Macquarie University beginning February 2020. Institutionalization of Indigenous queer and trans studies occurs in a context in which education and institutionalization have been tools of settler colonialism used against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This article considers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagement with institutions in the discipline of Indigenous studies, and what this means for Indigenous queer and trans studies as it emerges in a tradition of Indigenist and decolonial thought.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document