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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Promises, Promises, Promises -- The Promise of Neutrality -- The Myth of Neutrality -- Masculinist Bias -- Technology and Power -- Disembodiment -- Conversational Virtues -- Admission to the Community -- The Promise of Universal Access -- The Myth of Access -- Economic Limitations -- Literacy -- Participation -- Climate -- The Search for Public Space -- Chapter 2: Case Study of the National Capital Freenet -- A Visit to ncf.general -- About ncf.general -- Writing the Public in Cyberspace -- Quantitative Analysis: Breakdown of Participation by Gender -- Beyond Counting -- (1) Frequent Posters -- (2) NCF.Board -- (3) Internet Racism -- Dominant, Marginalized, and Missing Discourses of the Public in ncf.general -- Chapter 3: Policing the Subject-Social Control in ncf.general -- (4) Violence Against Women (Janice M) -- (5) Reform MP for Nanaimo-Cowichan -- (6) Racial Purity/White Supremacy (Ernie T) -- (7) Long Live Canada (Elliott D) -- (8) Bert R's Signoff -- Policing the Subject -- Climate -- Hopeful Signs/Where Do We Go from Here? -- Chapter 4: Educational Change and the Public Sphere -- Learning to Engage with and about New Information Technologies -- Learning How to Write the Public -- Connection to Old vs. New Paradigms of Post-Secondary Teaching -- Trying It Out: SA 292 -- Be My Fag/SA292 in the Chat Room -- Freedom of Speech vs. Censorship/Freedom To vs. Freedom From -- Conclusions from Trying It Out -- Chapter 5: Feminist Counterpublics -- Strategies for Feminist Contestation and Re-Writing of the Public in Cyberspace -- Feminist Activity in Cyberspace -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Public Technologies -- Index

Cover -- THE TRANS GENERATION -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Transgender Kids -- 2. Schools -- 3. Spaces -- 4. Parents -- 5. Supportive Healthcare -- Conclusion: Beyond Hope -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Recommendations -- Appendix B: Resources -- Appendix C: The Kids -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families Some "boys" will only wear dresses; some "girls" refuse to wear dresses; in both cases, as Ann Travers shows in this fascinating account of the lives of transgender kids, these are often more than just wardrobe choices. Travers shows that from very early ages, some at two and three years old, these kids find themselves to be different from the sex category that was assigned to them at birth. How they make their voices heard--to their parents and friends, in schools, in public spaces, and through the courts--is the focus of this remarkable and groundbreaking book. Based on interviews with transgender kids, ranging in age from 4 to 20, and their parents, and over five years of research in the US and Canada, The Trans Generation offers a rare look into what it is like to grow up as a trans child. From daycare to birthday parties and from the playground to the school bathroom, Travers takes the reader inside the day-to-day realities of trans kids who regularly experience crisis as a result of the restrictive ways in which sex categories regulate their lives and put pressure on them to deny their internal sense of who they are in gendered terms. As a transgender activist and as an advocate for trans kids, Travers is able to document from first-hand experience the difficulties of growing up trans and the challenges that parents can face. The book shows the incredible time, energy, and love that these parents give to their children, even in the face of, at times, unsupportive communities, schools, courts, health systems, and government laws. Keeping in mind that all trans kids are among the most vulnerable to bullying, violent attacks, self-harm, and suicide, and that those who struggle with poverty, racism, lack of parental support, learning differences, etc, are extremely at risk, Travers offers ways to support all trans kids through policy recommendations and activist interventions. Ultimately, the book is meant to open up options for kids' own gender self-determination, to question the need for the sex binary, and to highlight ways that cultural and material resources can be redistributed more equitably. The Trans Generation offers an essential and important new understanding of childhood. --Publisher description

Abstract
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

The purpose of this article is twofold: to capture the injustice inherent in the gendered bifurcation of baseball and softball via the prism of critical feminist sport studies; and to begin to imagine a girl-friendly/women-and trans-inclusive future for baseball that is less fertile for cooptation into post-911 United States security state discourses. In this article I link the "unthinkability" of the occupational segregation of baseball in North America to the dominance of the ideology of the two sex system and European disasporic morality. To illustrate the extent of this occupational segregation via the gendered bifurcation of baseball and softball, I draw on feminist sport studies to examine the exemplars or "texts" of three Canadian brother/sister baseball softball duos: Jason Bay and Lauren Bay Regula; Brett and Danielle Lawrie; and Mathew and Katie Reyes.

In this introduction to this special issue on Transformative Visions of Sport I draw attention to the tension critical sport studies scholars are likely to experience between the attention they draw to the role of sport in perpetuating and normalizing various injustices and their own passion for particular sports. It is no accident that most critical sport studies scholars are also huge fans of various competitions/games, and, indeed, I would argue, this may be a requirement for gaining sport literacy. Each of the five articles included in this special issue aims to showcase their author(s) integration of passion for sport with a vision for social change and social justice.

Citing section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 15 women's ski jumpers took the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) to court over the exclusion of a women's ski jumping event. In this analysis of the initial court case and subsequent appeal, I demonstrate that Canadian (and western) citizenship was contested in this legal battle and that gendered, raced, and classed dimensions of citizenship were at play. To make this case, I draw on critical feminist and critical race theorizing on citizenship. From my analysis, three key silences emerge. These concern the underlying assumptions of sex segregation, whiteness, and class privilege.

Male-dominated and sex segregated elite professional and amateur sport1 in North America constitutes a "sport nexus" (Burstyn, 1999; Heywood & Dworkin, 2003) that combines economic and cultural influence to reinforce and perpetuate gender injustice. The sport nexus is an androcentric sex-segregated commercially powerful set of institutions that is highly visible and at the same time almost completely taken for granted to the extent that its anti-democratic impetus goes virtually unnoticed. The sport nexus's hegemonic role in defining sporting norms (Coakley & Donnelly, 2004) means that its role in shaping lower level amateur and recreational sporting institutions and cultures is highly significant. Fraser (2007) defines gender justice, and hence democracy, in terms of "participatory parity," that is, material and cultural equality for women. The sport nexus itself is characterized by highly gendered occupational segregation (Coventry, 2004). It further contributes to gender injustice, homophobia and transphobia by promoting the ideology of the two sex system (Fausto-Sterling, 2000) and gendering citizenship as fundamentally male (Burstyn, 1999). Feminist strategies for sport reformation attempt to reduce or eradicate the role of the sport nexus in legitimating and perpetuating gender injustice. In this article I consider the potential of these strategies and conclude with a set of recommendations for transforming organized sport at both elite and recreational levels.

Male-dominated and sex segregated elite professional and amateur sport1 in North America constitutes a "sport nexus" (Burstyn, 1999; Heywood & Dworkin, 2003) that combines economic and cultural influence to reinforce and perpetuate gender injustice. The sport nexus is an androcentric sex-segregated commercially powerful set of institutions that is highly visible and at the same time almost completely taken for granted to the extent that its anti-democratic impetus goes virtually unnoticed. The sport nexus's hegemonic role in defining sporting norms (Coakley & Donnelly, 2004) means that its role in shaping lower level amateur and recreational sporting institutions and cultures is highly significant. Fraser (2007) defines gender justice, and hence democracy, in terms of "participatory parity," that is, material and cultural equality for women. The sport nexus itself is characterized by highly gendered occupational segregation (Coventry, 2004). It further contributes to gender injustice, homophobia and transphobia by promoting the ideology of the two sex system (Fausto-Sterling, 2000) and gendering citizenship as fundamentally male (Burstyn, 1999). Feminist strategies for sport reformation attempt to reduce or eradicate the role of the sport nexus in legitimating and perpetuating gender injustice. In this article I consider the potential of these strategies and conclude with a set of recommendations for transforming organized sport at both elite and recreational levels.

This article introduces a distinction between gender conforming and gender transforming elements in the transgender liberation movement and explores the way in which lesbian softball leagues have responded to these challenges. The transgender inclusive policies of a sample of North American lesbian softball leagues are examined within the context of a queer feminist challenge to the gender binary and the role of sport in normalizing the two sex system. The research reveals the emergence of policy that achieves some transgender inclusion while remaining within the framework of the gender binary. The potential for lesbian softball leagues to model a queering of sport requires that such organizations address the tensions between women-only sporting spaces and a hetero-normative gender binary.

The historically exclusive nature of public spaces and discourses is beyond dispute. While feminist and "other" counterpublics have provided alternative ways of organizing public interaction and dialogue, these have remained largely invisible to nonparticipants. New information technologies afford new possibilities for feminist counterpublics to influence the norms of participation and boundaries between insiders and outsiders in mainstream public spaces. In this article I argue that feminist counterpublics in cyberspace are evidence of a new development in social discourse: The creation of subaltern parallel counterpublics distinguishable from oppositional/separatist counterpublics based, to differing degrees, on identity politics.

A feminist critique of two models of radical democracy by John Keane (Democracy and Civil Society, London: Verso, 1988) & Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe (Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, London: Verso, 1985). It is argued that in this modern/postmodern world, the potential for a radical reinterpretion of liberal-democratic theory exists, but feminist analysis must be fused into that theory. Principles outlined for such a reconstruction include: (1) the public sphere should not be thought of or built around terms of universals, & individual rights should be defined in terms of particularity, not neutrality; (2) particularity should be at the center of public debate, & diversity of the individual & the public realm must be accepted; (3) no issues or forms of expression may be excluded from the public sphere; & (4) universality & impartiality should be recognized as part of old power configurations & not pursued as goals themselves. 43 References. G. Castaneda