The education of little cis: Cisgender and the discipline of opposing bodies

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Volumn 9781439907481, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-77

  Enke, A Finn ^a  

^a Department of Gender and Women's Studies and History ^*  (United States)

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19. Emi Koyama (06/07/2002), posted on Koyama's blog site, http://eminism.org/interchange/2002/20020607-wmstl.html.
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30. Serano, Whipping Girl, 162-163.
31. S. Bear Bergman, The Nearest Exit May Be behind You (Vancouver, British Columbia: Arsenal Press, 2009);
32. Talia Mae Bettcher, "Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion", Hypatia 22, no. 3(Summer 2007):43-65.
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35. The Transgender Studies Reader, 698-704.
36. Camp Trans Web site, www.camp-trans.org.
37. Defo0008 04:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC), posted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cisgender;emphasisadded.
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46. Zev Al-Walid, "Pilgrimage", in Gender Outlaws, 261-267;
47. Dean Spade, "Compliance Is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy", in Transgender Rights, 217-240;
48. Richard M. Juang, "Transgendering the Politics of Recognition", in Transgender Rights, 242-261;
49. Koyama, "Whose Feminism Is It Anyway?"
50. Valentine, Imagining Transgender;
51. Dean Spade, "Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape", Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review 18, no. 2(2009):353-373;
52. Spade, "Documenting Gender."
53. Cathy Cohen, "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" in Black Queer Studies, ed. E. Patrick Johnson and Mae Henderson (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 21-51.
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60. Prosser, Second Skins;
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63. Rachel Pollack, "Archetypal Transsexuality", TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, no. 9(Summer 1995):39-41;
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66. Nikki Sullivan, "Transmogrification: (Un) Becoming Other (s)", in The Transgender Studies Reader, 552-563;
67. Judith Butler, "Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality", in The Transgender Studies Reader, 183-192;
68. Wilchins, Read My Lips.
69. Defosse's entry goes on, "I think the use of cisgender also captures a subtle and nondualistic aspect of the issue at hand; cisgender reinforces and reflects itself, while transgender originates where cisgender begins but extends into a greater dimension by 'crossing over.'" Defo0008 04:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC), posted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cisgender.
70. Unsigned 68.162.116.127 (talk) 00:12, 15 October 2007 (UTC), posted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cisgender.
71. Author interview with Dr. Marci Bowers, July 25, 2009, Trinidad, Colorado. Bowers has insisted on this point in numerous public interviews and documentaries as well.
72. Stone, "The Empire Strikes Back";
73. Jamison Green, "Look! No, Don't! The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men", in The Transgender Studies Reader, 499-508.
74. Mercedes Allen, "The Death of the 'Transgender' Umbrella", The Bilerico Project, June 1, 2011, www.bilerico.com/2011/06/the-death-of-transgender.php?sms-ss=facebook&at-xt=4de7025e1a73766d,1.
75. Michael Davidson, Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
76. Tobin Siebers, Disability Theory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008);
77. Terry Galloway, "Tough", in Gay Shame, 196-200;
78. Dominique Bednarska, "Passing Last Summer", in Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (New York: Avalon, 2006), 71-82;
79. Clare, Exile and Pride;
80. Rosemary Garland-Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability (New York: Routledge, 1996).
81. Anne Enke, Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).
82. Ellen Samuels, "My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming-Out Discourse", GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9, nos. 1-2(2003):233-255.
83. Elaine Ginsburg, ed., Passing and the Fictions of Identity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996), 4.
84. Siebers, Disability Theory.
85. Megan Jones, "'Gee, You Don't Look Handicapped⋯': Why I Use a White Cane to Tell People I'm Deaf", Electric EDGE (July-August 1997): "Many people are more comfortable relating to me and accommodating me if they can be absolutely certain that I am who I say I am, a deaf-blind person. And they are not absolutely certain that I am that person until I bump into a wall or shape my hands into what is to them an incomprehensible language. In other words, I must make myself completely alien to these people in order for them to feel that they understand me" (www.ragged-edge-mag.com/archive/look.htm).
86. Benjamin Singer, "From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations: The Ethics of (Re) Viewing Non-normative Body Images", in The Transgender Studies Reader, 601-620;
87. Sullivan, "The Role of Medicine in the (Trans) Formation of 'Wrong' Bodies."
88. Michel Foucault, A History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (New York: Vintage, 1990);
89. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage, 1995);
90. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990).
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93. "Ahh, Freak Out! Metaphors of Disability and Femaleness in Performance", Theatre Topics 9, no. 1(1999):11-30.
94. Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (book manuscript in process).
95. Ryka Aoki, "When Something Is Not Right", this volume, 195-202.