Third Wave Feminism and Transgender : Strength through Diversity (Hardcover)

Dedication *

Contents *

CHAPTER 1: Introduction ? Potential for a Transgender/3^rd Wave Feminist Coalition *

1.1 Investigating Connections: Potential for a Coalition *

1.2 Building Connections: How to Form a Coalition *

1.3 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 2: Explaining Trans Lives - Silence and Secrecy *

Introduction *

2.1 Silence and Secrecy *

2.2 Infantilisation and the ‘Refusal to Grow Up’ *

2.3 Which Trans Identities are Real? *

2.4 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 3: The 3rd Wave ? Career Feminism or Quiet Revolution? *

Introduction *

3.1 ‘Personally Political Postmodern Identity’ *

3.2 Contradiction *

3.3 Inter-Wave Philosophy and Maternal Relations *

3.4 Womanism: Excluded but Inclusive *

3.5 The 3^rd Wave: An Open and Evolving Discourse? *

3.6 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 4: Legal Review - The View from Somewhere *

Introduction *

4.1 Radical Struggles for Single Functional Issue Legislation *

4.2 Any Gender You Want as Long as it’s Heteronormative *

4.3 ‘Othering’ *

4.4 Agency and Communion *

4.5 Postconventional Ethics? *

4.6 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 5: 3^rd Wave Philosophy ? Dialogic Negotiation *

Introduction *

5.1 Ethical Framework: Setting up and Maintaining the Transstudy *

5.2 Philosophical Framework: Queer Inspired 3^rd Wave Feminism *

5.3 Why Narratives? *

5.4 Semanalysis Deriving from the Semiotic *

5.5 Construction of the Critical Discourse Analysis Framework *

5.6 Creation of the Reconstructing Discourses *

5.7 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 6: Identity Essentialism to Subjectivity-In-Process ? The Whole Trans Person *

Introduction *

6.1 Which Gender Variant Subjectivities are Real? *

6.2 Political Subjectivity? *

6.3 The Whole Trans Person *

6.4 Identity as a Process: Subjectivity *

6.5 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 7: Closed and Static Texts to Open and Evolving Narratives ? Articulation and Openness *

Introduction *

7.1 Voice *

7.2 Passing *

7.3 Choice *

7.4 ‘A Movement of Their Own’? *

7.5 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 8: Exclusion to Inclusion ? Postdifference for ‘Others’ *

Introduction *

8.1 Social Cleansing *

8.2 Immigrants and Refugees *

8.3 Maternal Relations *

8.4 Finding Ourselves - Epiphanies *

8.5 Conclusion *

CHAPTER 9: Recommendations ? Ghosts in the Machine *

Introduction *

9.1 Maternal Relations *

9.2 Genre and Genealogy *

9.3 Postdifference *

9.4 Practical Applications of the Recommendations *

Bibliography *

Appendix *

List of Transstudy Topics *

Table of Cases *

Table of Legislation *