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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.

Chronicles the history of Gerwani (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia, or the Indonesian Women's Movement), the women's organization of the Communist Party of Indonesia, from its inception among a group of young female revolutionaries in 1954. Focus is on its role in the "putsch" or coup of 1 Oct 1965 that brought General Soeharto to power, attempting to ferret out the truth from the many lies contained in official government accounts of the events, which labeled Gerwani women "communist whores" who spread the "moral poison" of their party. The Soeharto regime's campaign of slander & sexual innuendo against the Gerwani is examined in terms of its underlying sexual politics & motivation, ie, to quell women's increasing political activism. Obstacles continuing to confront Indonesian women even after the removal of Soeharto & his New Order government in 1998 are described. 55 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Chronicles the history of Gerwani (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia, or the Indonesian Women's Movement), the women's organization of the Communist Party of Indonesia, from its inception among a group of young female revolutionaries in 1954. Focus is on its role in the "putsch" or coup of 1 Oct 1965 that brought General Soeharto to power, attempting to ferret out the truth from the many lies contained in official government accounts of the events, which labeled Gerwani women "communist whores" who spread the "moral poison" of their party. The Soeharto regime's campaign of slander & sexual innuendo against the Gerwani is examined in terms of its underlying sexual politics & motivation, ie, to quell women's increasing political activism. Obstacles continuing to confront Indonesian women even after the removal of Soeharto & his New Order government in 1998 are described. 55 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Domestic violence in Asia is explored in this analysis through questions of family ambiguity and the relationship between concept, law, and strategy. Comparative experiences in the Asian context enable an examination of the effectiveness of family regulations and laws in diverse national, cultural, and religious settings. Key questions relate to the limits and relevance of the human rights discourse in resolving family conflicts; the extent to which power and control in intimate relationships can actually be regulated by a set of inanimate, homo