Teaching transgender history, identity, and politics

Radical History Review

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 166-177

  Reis, Elizabeth ^a  

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EID: 77449101874     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2004-88-166     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Jennifer Finney Boylan, Slic's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (New York: Broadway Books, 2003);
2. Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999);
3. John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Botj Who Was Raised As a Girl (New York: HarperCollins, 2000).
4. Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: The History of Transsexuality in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).
5. Dale Cannon, Six Ways of Being Religious: A Comparative Framework of Religion (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1996).
6. For a good introduction to questioning gender, see Kate Bomstein's two books, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (New York: Vintage, 1994), and My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (New York: Routledge, 1998).
7. I am currently at work on a book project that developed from teaching this class, tentatively entitled "Gender in TRANSition."
8. Sabine Lang, Men As Women, Women As Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998);
9. Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997).
10. See Lisa Duggan, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000)
11. and Jennifer Teny, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
12. Cheryl Chase, "Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism," "The Transgender Issue," GLQ 4 (1998): 189-212;
13. Alice Domurat Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
14. Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998).
15. American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR, 4th ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
16. Judith Butler, afterword to Butch/Femmc: Inside Lesbian Gender, ed. Sally R. Munt (London: Cassell, 1998), 229.