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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Sex before, after, and against Nature -- 1. Wildness, Loss, and Death -- 2. "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and an Indigenous Aesthetics of Bewilderment -- 3. The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry -- Introduction. Animals Wild and Tame -- 4. Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children -- 5. Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World -- Conclusions. The Ninth Wave -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- PREFACE -- 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO FEMALE MASCULINITY -- 2. PERVERSE PRESENTISM -- 3. "A WRITER OF MISFITS" -- 4. LESBIAN MASCULINITY -- 5. TRANSGENDER BUTCH -- 6. LOOKING BUTCH -- 7. DRAG KINGS -- 8. RAGING BULL (DYKE) -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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 US and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? The author 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. -- Provided by publisher

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 US and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? The author 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. -- Provided by publisher.

Abstract
Is trans studies over? Some scholars claim it was over before it began, swallowed whole by queer studies. Rather than doubling down on a small territorial struggle, this essay tries to make sense of the appeal of such claims on the one hand and the futility of them on the other. Offering a reading of Andrea Long Chu's recent book Females and situating that book within its rather narrow North American context, this essay offers a different view of the present, past, and future of trans studies.

In this talk, Halberstam argued against new versions of humanism that seek life at all costs, that seek to extend life, prolong life, invest in the good life, and that see death as the ultimate form of failure. Halberstam used the metaphor of the zombie to explore new dynamics between prolonged life for the wealthy and the diminished opportunities for longevity for everyone else. Our current matrix of extended life can be understood in terms of the bio-political but this is a 'zombie biopolitics' that creates new balancing acts between bio- and necro-political regimes. Zombie humanism, accordingly, arrogates liveliness, dynamism, vibrancy and resonance for itself and consigns all other forms of being to the status of inertia and stasis. Judith Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at USC (University of Southern California). Halberstam is the author of five books including Female Masculinity (1998), The Queer Art of Failure (2011), and most recently Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of the Normal (2012). Halberstam works generally in the areas of queer theory, visual and popular culture, gender studies and art, and blogs at bullybloggers.wordpress.com as well as jackhalberstam.com. Halberstam is currently working on a book on "the wild." ; Jack Halberstam, 'Zombie Humanism at the End of the World', keynote presented at the conference Weak Resistance: Everyday Struggles and the Politics of Failure , ICI Berlin, 27 May 2015, video recording, mp4, 50:11