SWMS355 TRANSGENDER STUDIES READINGS
INTRODUCTION
Paisley Currah, Ricard M. Juang, Shannon Miller, eds., "Transgender Rights". 2006 pp. 1-21.
Source: Paisley Currah, "Gender Pluralisms Under the Transgender Umbrella".
http://books.google.com/books?id=FUwOKayHVwcC&lpg=PP1&dq=transgender&pg=PR13#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Leslie Feinberg, "Transgender Warriors". 1996. pp:1-10.
http://books.google.com/books?id=cWuG0efwzJoC&lpg=PP1&dq=transgender&lr=&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Myra J. Hird, "Considerations for a Psychoanalytic Theory of Gender Identity and Sexual Desire: The Case of Intersex," Signs 28, no. 4 (Summer 2003): 1067-1092, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3175845.
Various articles in the Journal of the History of Sexuality http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3704913.
Douglas Mason-Schrock, "Transsexuals' Narrative Construction of the "True Self"," Social Psychology Quarterly 59, no. 3 (September 1996): 176-192, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/2787018.
Catharine R. Stimpson, "On Being Transminded," Signs 25, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 1007-1011, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3175477.
STRATEGIES TO REDUCE TRANSPHOBIA
Sears, James T. and Walter L. Williams, Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
CROSS CULTURAL
NATIVE AMERICA
Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986, 2nd ed. 1992.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Ruth Morgan and Graeme Reid, "'I've Got Two Men and One Woman': Ancestors, Sexuality and Identity among Same-Sex Identified Women Traditional Healers in South Africa," Culture, Health & Sexuality 5, no. 5 (October 2003): 375-391, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/4005344.
SOUTH ASIA
Indrani Sen Gupta, Indrani Sen, "Human Rights of Minority and Women's Transgender Human Rights". 2005. pp: 62-121.
MIDDLE EAST
Unni Wikan, "Man Becomes Woman: Transsexualism in Oman as a Key to Gender Roles," Man 12, no. 2, New Series (August 1977): 304-319, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/2800801.
Robert Brain, "Transsexualism in Oman?," Man 13, no. 2, New Series (June 1978): 322-323, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/2800253.
Elif Shafak, "Transgender Bolero," Middle East Report, no. 230 (Spring 2004): 26-47, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/1559292.
Yael Ben-zvi, "Zionist Lesbianism and Transsexual Transgression: Two Representations of Queer Israel," Middle East Report, no. 206 (Spring 1998): 26-37, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3012477.
SOUTHEAST ASIA MAINLAND
Peter A. Jackson, "Thai Research on Male Homosexuality and Transgenderism and the Cultural Limits of Foucaultian Analysis," Journal of the History of Sexuality 8, no. 1 (July 1997): 52-85, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3704488.
Peter A. Jackson, "An Explosion of Thai Identities: Global Queering and Re-Imagining Queer Theory," Culture, Health & Sexuality 2, no. 4 (December 2000): 405-424, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3986699.
Mark Johnson, Peter Jackson, and Gilbert Herdt, "Critical Regionalities and the Study of Gender and Sexual Diversity in South East and East Asia," Culture, Health & Sexuality 2, no. 4 (December 2000): 361-375, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3986696.
Megan Sinnott, "The Semiotics of Transgendered Sexual Identity in the Thai Print Media: Imagery and Discourse of the Sexual Other," Culture, Health & Sexuality 2, no. 4 (December 2000): 425-440, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3986700.
SOUTHEAST ASIA ISLAND
Michael G. Peletz, "Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia since Early Modern Times," Current Anthropology 47, no. 2 (April 2006): 309-340, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3696809.
Didik Nini Thowok and Laurie Margot Ross, "Mask, Gender, and Performance in Indonesia: An Interview with Didik Nini Thowok," Asian Theatre Journal 22, no. 2 (Autumn 2005): 214-226, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/4137131.
Evelyn Blackwood, "Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire," Cultural Anthropology 13, no. 4 (November 1998): 491-521, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/656570.
Evelyn Blackwood, "Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings," Gender and Society 19, no. 2 (April 2005): 221-242, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/30044584.
Evelyn Blackwood, "Gender Transgression in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia," The Journal of Asian Studies 64, no. 4 (November 2005): 849-879, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/25075902.
Tom Boellstorff, "Dubbing Culture: Indonesian "Gay" and "Lesbi" Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World," American Ethnologist 30, no. 2 (May 2003): 225-242, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3805374.
Tom Boellstorff, "Playing Back the Nation: Waria, Indonesian Transvestites," Cultural Anthropology 19, no. 2 (May 2004): 159-195, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3651553.
EAST ASIA
Margaret A. Mills, "The Gender of the Trick: Female Tricksters and Male Narrators," Asian Folklore Studies 60, no. 2 (2001): 237-258, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/1179056.
MEXICO
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, "Portraits of a Lady: Visions of Modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City," Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos 23, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 63-100, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/4490733.
PACIFIC ISLANDS
TRANSGENDER IN HISTORY
Claudia Breger, "Feminine Masculinities: Scientific and Literary Representations of "Female Inversion" at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Journal of the History of Sexuality 14, no. 1/2 (January 1, 2005): 76-106, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3704710.
Christophe Den Tandt, "Amazons and Androgynes: Overcivilization and the Redefinition of Gender Roles at the Turn of the Century," American Literary History 8, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 639-664, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/490116.
CROSSDRESSERS
Helen Boyd, "She's Not the Man I Married". 2007. pp: 1-35.
On the Issues – magazine website link to article written by Helen Boyd who is married to a man that is making the transition from man to woman
http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2009summer/2009summer_Boyd.php
CONTEMPORARY
Lori B. Girshick, Jamison Green, "Transgender Voices Beyond Men and Women". 2009. pp: 1-40.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Bs5IrE1YwrQC&lpg=PP1&dq=transgender&lr=&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Susan Janet Barker, A Lonely Heart, "A True Transgender Story". 2008. pp: 5-18.
http://books.google.com/books?id=OKwgjcjqInIC&lpg=PP1&dq=transgender&lr=&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Stephen Whittle, "The Transgender Debate The Crisis Surrounding Gender Identities". 2000. pp: 1-14
http://books.google.com/books?id=UW9CknJ-tZUC&lpg=PP1&dq=transgender&lr=&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Jonathan Alexander, "Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body," College Composition and Communication 57, no. 1 (September 2005): 45-82, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/30037898.
Patricia Gagne, Richard Tewksbury, and Deanna McGaughey, "Coming out and Crossing over: Identity Formation and Proclamation in a Transgender Community," Gender and Society 11, no. 4 (August 1997): 478-508, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/190483.
Patricia Gagné and Richard Tewksbury, "Knowledge and Power, Body and Self: An Analysis of Knowledge Systems and the Transgendered Self," The Sociological Quarterly 40, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 59-83, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/4120891.
Cressida J. Heyes, "Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender," Signs 28, no. 4 (Summer 2003): 1093-1120, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3175846.
Morris Meyer, "I Dream of Jeannie: Transsexual Striptease as Scientific Display," TDR (1988-) 35, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 25-42, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/1146108.
Douglas Schrock, Lori Reid, and Emily M. Boyd, "Transsexuals' Embodiment of Womanhood," Gender and Society 19, no. 3 (June 2005): 317-335, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/30044596.
David Valentine and Riki Anne Wilchins, "One Percent on the Burn Chart: Gender, Genitals, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude," Social Text, no. 52/53 (Autumn - Winter 1997): 215-222, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/466740.
TRANSGENDER YOUTH
Michael Bochenek, A. Widney Brown, Human Rights Watch (Organization), "Hatred in the Hallways Volence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools". New York, Washington, London, Brussels, Human Rights Organization. 2001. pp: 60-63.
Bernice L. Hausman, "Do Boys Have to Be Boys? Gender, Narrativity, and the John/Joan Case," NWSA Journal 12, no. 3 (Autumn 2000): 114-138, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/4316765.
Michael R. Schiavi, "A "Girlboy's" Own Story: Non-Masculine Narrativity in "Ma Vie en Rose"," College Literature 31, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 1-26, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/25115205.
LEGAL ISSUES
Anna Kirkland, "Victorious Transsexuals in the Courtroom: A Challenge for Feminist Legal Theory," Law & Social Inquiry 28, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 1-37, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/1215765.
Katrina Roen, ""Either/Or" and "Both/Neither": Discursive Tensions in Transgender Politics," Signs 27, no. 2 (Winter 2002): 501-522, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/stable/3175790.
ADDITIONAL READING
Benjamin, Harry, The Transsexual Phenomenon. New York: Julian Press, 1965.
Bornstein, Kate, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Brevard, Aleshia, The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith, Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Long Haul Press, 1984.
Bullough, Vern L., et. al., eds., An Annotated Bibliography of Homosexuality. New York: Garland Publishing, 1976.
Bullough, Vern L., ed., Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2002.
Bullough, Vern L. and Bonny Bullough, Crossdressing Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Cauldwell, David O., ed., Transvestism … Men in Female Dress. New York: Sexology Corporation, 1956.
Colker, Ruth, Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits under American Law. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Conn, Canary, Canary: The Story of a Transsexual. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1974.
Docter, Richard F., Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen. New York: Haworth Press, 2008.
Echols, Alice, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Faderman, Lillian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Feinberg, Leslie, Stone Butch Blues: A Novel. (New York: Alyson Books, 1993).
Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume I, trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Random House, 1978.
Freeman, Chris, and James J. Berg, eds., Love, West Hollywood: Reflections of Los Angeles. New York: Alyson Books, 2008.
Gamson, Joshua, Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Hurewitz, Daniel, Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Jonathan Ned, ed., Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.: A Documentary History. New York: Meridian, 1992.
Jorgensen, Christine, Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2000.
Marlowe, Kenneth, A Madam's Memoirs. Chicago: Novel Books, 1965.
Marlowe, Kenneth, Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1964.
Mario Martino, Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography
Morgan, Patricia, The Man-Maid Doll, as told to Paul Hoffman. Secaucus, N. J.: Lyle Stuart, ca. 1973.
Namaste, Viviane K., Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Nelson, [Richard], Call Me Kate: The Story of Katherine Marlowe, A Transsexual. San Jose: Writers Club Press, 1999.
Nestle, Joan, ed., The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992.
Nettick, Geri, with Beth Eliot. Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual. New York: Rhinoceros, 1996.
Prince, Virginia, How to Be a Woman, though Male. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, 1980.
Prince, Virginia Charles, The Transvestite and His Wife. Los Angeles: Argyle Books, ca. 1967.
Prince, Virginia Charles, Understanding Crossdressing. Los Angeles: Chevalier, 1976.
Raymond, Janice G., The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979.
Raynor, Darrell G., A Year Among the Girls. New York: L. Stuart, 1966.
Scott-Dixon, Krista (ed.) Trans/Forming Feminisms: Trans-Feminist Voices Speak Out, Sumach Press, 2006
Stein, Arlene, ed., Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation. New York: Plume, 1993.
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein, ed., That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Brooklyn: Soft Skulls Press, 2004.
Stryker, Susan and Stephen Whittle, eds., The Transgender Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Stryker, Susan, Transgender History. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008.
Sullivan, Lou, Information for the Female to Male Cross Dresser and Transsexual, 3rd edition. Seattle: Ingersoll Gender Center, 1990.
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein, ed., That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Brooklyn: Soft Skulls Press, 2004.
Warner, Michael, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life.
Zachary Nataf, Lesbians Talk Transgender. (London: Scarlett Press, 1996).