Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.
Introduction
Part I: Sex, Gender, and Science
1. Psychopathia Sexualis with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct
R. von Krafft-Ebbing
2. Selections from Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress
Magnus Hirschfeld
3. Psychopathia Transexualis
D.O. Cauldwell
4. Transsexualism and Transvestism as Psycho-Somatic and Somato-Psychic Syndromes
Harry Benjamin
5. Imprinting and the Establishment of Gender Identity
John Money, John L. Hampson, and Joan G. Hampson
6. Passing and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status in an "Intersexed" Person
Harold Garfinkel
7. The Mutability of Gender and the Imperative of Sex
Charles Sheperdson
8. A Manifesto for Cyborgs
Donna Haraway
Part II: Feminist Investments
9. The Drag Queen, The Camp
Esther Newton
10. Sappho by Surgery: The Transsexually Constructed Lesbian Feminist
Janice G. Raymond
11. Divided Sisterhood: A Critical Review of Janice Raymond's "The Trans-sexual Empire"
Carol Riddell
12. A Transvestite Answers a Feminist
S. Sullivan
13. Toward a Theory of Gender
Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna
14. Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality
Judith Butler
15. Feminism and Trans Theory: Two Teams on the Same Side
Stephen Whittle
Part III: Queering Gender
16. Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come
Leslie Feinberg
17. The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
Sandy Stone
18. Gender Trouble, Gender Rage
Kate Bornstein
19. My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix
Susan Stryker
20. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transsubstantiation of Sex
J. Prosser
21. Are Lesbians Women?
Jacob Hale
22. Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism
Cheryl Chase
23. Mutilating Gender
Dean Spade
Part IV: Selves: Identity and Community
24. Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiography
Bernice Hausman
25. A "Fierce and Demanding" Drive
Joanne Meyerowitz
26. ONE Inc., and Reed Erickson: The Uneasy Collaboration of Gay and Trans Activism
Aaron H. Devor
27. "I went to bed with my own kind once": The Erasure of Desire in the Name of Identity
David Valentine
28. Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories
Nan Alamilla Boyd
29. The Loyal Opposition
Patrick Califia-Rice
30. Selections from Lesbians Talk: Transgender
Zachary Nataf
31. Deep, Deadly, and Angry
Jordy Jones
Part V: Transgender Masculinities
32. Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries
Gayle Rubin
33. The Logic of Treatment
Henry Rubin
34. Look! No Don't The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men
Jamison Green
35. Queering the Binaries: Transsituated Identities, Bodies, and Sexualities
Jason Cromwell
36. "Spoiled Identity": Stephen Gordon's Loneliness and the Difficulties of Doing Queer History
Love Heather
37. Transsexuals in the Military: Flight into Hypermasculinity
George Brown
Part VI: Embodied Ethics in Time and Space
38. What Does it Cost to Tell the Truth?
Rikki Anne Wilchins
39. Perverse Embodiment
Nikki Sullivan
40. Hermaphrodites in Love
Alice Domurat Dreger
41. Fin de Siecle, Fin du Sexe: Transsexuality, Postmodernism, and the Death of History
Rita Felski
42. Skin-Flick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs"
Judith Halberstam
43. Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender, and the Regulation of Public Space
Viviane K. Namaste
44. From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations: Re-viewing Non-standard Bodies
45. From Functionality to Aesthetics: The Architecture of Transgender Jurisprudence
Andrew Sharpe
Part VII: Multiple Crossings: Genders, Ethics, Race
46. The Chic of Araby: Transvestism and the Erotics of Cultural Appropriation
Marjorie Garber
47. Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The Risk of Racial Marginalization
Katrina Roen
48. Transgressing the Gender Boundary
Wong Ying Wuen
49. Whose Feminism Is It anyway?: The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate
Wong Ying Wuen
50. Transgendering the Politics of Recognition
Richard Juang
Index
Susan Stryker is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University. Stephen Whittle is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and coordinator of the United Kingdom FTM Network