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"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

AbstractAs we witness a resurgence of white supremacy and fascism and the emergence of new, transformative justice movements, this article encourages a more mixed-up understanding of 1970s feminisms. Many historians have offered nuanced ways of narrating trans and feminist pasts that compel us to consider processes of exclusion past and present. Yet it seems that historians had barely begun to scratch the surface of 1970s feminist history before an ever-evolving set of binary characterizations started to eclipse feminisms' multivocal and multivalent complexities. How did "1970s feminism" enter collective memory as an exclusionary thing distinct from the experiences, labor, and critiques by feminists of color and trans and queer people of the same era? And why, when existing nuanced narratives might invite us to deeper analysis, are stories of exclusion and abjection so magnetic? More to the point, how might we highlight the mixings in the past and envision a less polarized present?

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- ( Introduction ) Locating Feminist Activism -- Part One Community Organizing and Commercial Space -- ( One ) ''Someone or Something Made That a Women's Bar'' -- ( Two ) ''Don't Steal It, Read It Here'' -- Part Two Public Assertion and Civic Space -- ( Three ) ''Kind of Like Mecca'' -- ( Four ) Out in Left Field -- Part Three Politicizing Place and Feminist Institutions -- ( Five ) Finding the Limits of Women's Autonomy -- ( Six ) If I Can't Dance Shirtless, It's Not a Revolution -- ( Conclusion ) Recognizing the Subject of Feminist Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index