Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Volume 3) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism and political recognition. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such an extensive rethinking of our understanding of gendered embodiment? How did a stigmatized identity become so central to U.S. and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? In Trans*, Jack Halberstam explores these recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a nongendered, gender-optional, or gender-queer future.

• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
• Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution
• Living a Feminist Life
• Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition
• Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture)
• WHEREAS: Poems
• Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
• High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society (P.S.)
• Female Masculinity
• Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture