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"Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what "the child" makes possible"--

The bodily ego and the contested domain of the material -- The sexual schema : transposition and transgenderism in Phenomenology of perception -- Boys of the lex : transgender and social construction -- Transfeminism and the future of gender -- An ethics of transsexual difference : Luce Irigaray and the place of sexual undecidability -- Sexual indifference and the problem of the limit -- Withholding the letter : sex as state property

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Social Reproduction and Social Cognition: Theorizing (Trans)gender Identity Development in Community Context -- 2 Trans Work: Employment Trajectories, Labour Discipline and Gender Freedom -- 3 Judith Butler's Scientific Revolution: Foundations for a Transsexual Marxism -- 4 How Do Gender Transitions Happen? -- 5 A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction -- 6 Notes from Brazil -- 7 Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Formation

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Feminism's Critical Edge -- Part I. Over the Edge -- The Impossibility of Women's Studies -- Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure -- Part II. Edged OUT -- Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections -- Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror -- Transfeminism and the Future of Gender -- Part III. Edging IN -- Discipline and Vanish: Feminism, the Resistance to Theory, and the Politics of Cultural Studies -- Whither Black Women's Studies: Interview -- Success and Its Failures -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index

The fabrication of 'the transgender child' / Heather Brunskell Evans and Michele Moore -- The transgender experiment on children / Stephanie Davis-Arai -- Gendered mis-intelligence: the fabrication of 'the transgender child' / Heather Brunskell-Evans -- 'I'm not a hideously bigoted parent who doesn't 'get' it' / GenderCriticalDad -- 'Trans' kids: LGB adults come out / Josephine Bartosch -- The language of the psyche: symptoms as symbols / Lisa Marchiano -- The body factory: twentieth century stories of sex change / Susan Matthews -- A full life uninterrupted by transition / Miranda Yardley -- Unheard voices of detransitioners / Carey Maria Catt Callahan -- The view from the consulting room / Robert Withers -- Trans utopias: transhumanism, transfeminism and manufacturing the self / Jen Izaakson -- Standing up for girls and boys / Michele Moore.

The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.

Acknowledgements: Citizenship, Care and Choice: LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe – an Introduction: Ana Cristina Santos -- SECTION I – CITIZENSHIP MATTERS: Chapter 1. Uprisings: A Meditation on Feminist Strategies for Enacting the Common: João Manuel de Oliveira -- Chapter 2. Bisexual Citizenship in Portugal: Mafalda Esteves Chapter 3. Biocriminals, Racism, and the Law: Friendship as Public Disorder: Pablo Pérez Navarro -- Chapter 4. Embodied Queer Epistemologies – a New Approach to (a Monstrous) Citizenship: Ana Cristina Santos -- SECTION II – CARE MATTERS: Chapter 5. Building Safer Spaces. Daily Strategies and Networks of Care in Cisheteronormative Italy: Tatiana Motterle -- Chapter 6. Insurgent Parenting: Political Implications of Child-Rearing and Caring Practices in Spain: Luciana Moreira -- Chapter 7. The Sexual Politics of Healthy Families and the Making of Class Relations: Chiara Bertone -- Chapter 8. Blurring the Boundaries of Intimate Relationships: Friendship and Networks of Care in Times of Precarity: Beatrice Gusmano -- SECTION III – CHOICE MATTERS: Chapter 9. Sharing is Caring – Living with Friends and Heterotopic Citizenship: Ana Lúcia Santos -- Chapter 10. Affective Trans Relationships: Towards a Deleuzian Approach to Friendship Theory: Zowie Davy -- Chapter 11. Italian Queer Transfeminism Towards a Gender Strike: Elia A.G. Arfini.

'Kiss my genders' celebrates the work of more than 20 international artists whose practices explore and engage with gender fluidity, as well as non-binary, trans and intersex identities. Published alongside an exhibition, the book features works from the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Working across painting, immersive installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty, and representations of the human form. The publication includes texts from writers, theorists, curators, poets and artists who have made key contributions to thinking in the field. From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the 'monstrous' or 'freaky', from the politics of prose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these writers throws light on a different way of seeing. Also featured is a round-table discussion between a selection of artists and exhibition curator Vincent Honoré

"If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies suggest timely and necessary changes for institutions of higher learning. Responding to the more visible presence of transgender persons as well as gender theories, the contributing essayists focus on how gender is practiced in academia, health care, social services, and even national border patrols. Working from the premise that transgender is both material and cultural, the contributors address such aspects of the university as administration, sports, curriculum, pedagogy, and the appropriate location for transgender studies. Combining feminist theory, transgender studies, and activism centered on social diversity and justice, these essays examine how institutions as lived contexts shape everyday life."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustration -- Introduction: Alliances and Allies -- Part One Realigning Methodology -- Chapter 1 White Analogy: Transcendental Becoming-Woman and the Fragilities of Race and Gender -- Chapter 2 The Deleuzian Notion of Becoming-Imperceptible and Postfeminist Strategies -- Chapter 3 Undoing the Subject: Feminist and Schizoanalytic Contributions to Political Desubjectification -- Part Two Rethinking Sexuality and Subjectivity -- Chapter 4 Schizoanalyzing Anoedipal Alliances -- Chapter 5 The Alliance between Materialist Feminism and Schizoanalysis: Toward a Materialist Theory of Sexed Subjectivity -- Chapter 6 To Have Done with Sexuality: Schizoanalysis and the Problem of Queer-Feminist Alliances -- Chapter 7 Deleuze and Transfeminism -- Part Three Deterritorializing Feminist Praxes -- Chapter 8 Schizoanalysis and the Deterritorializations of Transnational Feminism -- Chapter 9 Microrevolutions in Feminist Economics: A Schizoanalytic Response to "Third Way" Identity Production -- Chapter 10 Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as a Symbol for the Posthuman Future in the Anthropocene -- Chapter 11 Writing Difference: Toward a Becoming-Minoritarian -- Part Four Redrawing Aesthetic Alliances -- Chapter 12 Affective Alliances: A Feminist Schizoanalysis of Feminine Anxiety, Dis/orientation, and Affect Aliens -- Chapter 13 Alice in Wonderwater: Hysteria, Femininity, and Alliance in Clinical Aesthetics -- Chapter 14 Asceticism and Impersonality in Spiritual Aversion from Schizoanalysis to Chris Kraus -- Chapter 15 A Schizo-Revolutionary Labial Theory of Artistic Practice -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors -- Editor -- Managing Editor -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Changing Field of Women's and Gender Studies -- Part I Introduction -- Part II The Diversity of Academic Fields and Institutional Formations -- Part III Science, Health, and Psychology -- Part IV Culture -- Part V Politics, Economics, and the Environment -- Part VI Social Movements -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part II Diversity of Academic Fields and Institutional Formations -- Chapter 2 Women's Studies -- Introduction -- Case 1: Women's Studies in the United States -- Case 2: Women's Studies in Turkey -- Case 3: South Korea -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Gender Studies -- Gender Studies in Historical and Comparative Perspectives -- Precursors to Gender Studies -- Gender Scholarship During the Antislavery and Women's Suffrage Movements -- The Development of Gender Studies in the Social Sciences -- The Feminist Turn in Gender Literature -- Academic Feminism is Born -- Gender Studies and Gender Theory -- Intersectional Developments -- Queer Theory and the Categorical Challenge -- Cultural Logics and Status Expectations -- The Current State of Gender Theory: Multidimensional Frameworks -- Conclusion: Gender Studies and Gender Change -- References -- Chapter 4 Masculinities Studies -- Introduction -- Frameworks for Men's and Masculinities Studies -- Masculinities by Type -- Masculinity in Global Perspective -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Trans Studies -- Early Chronologies -- The Case of Agnes -- Mobilizations, 1960s-1980s -- Difference and Deviance -- Trans Rights: A Human Rights Issue -- Transfeminism -- In Closing -- Note -- References -- Part III Science, Health, and Psychology -- Chapter 6 Science, Technology, and Gender -- Introduction.