Genderqueer

by Nestle, Joan

• ISBN13: 9781555837303
• ISBN10: 1555837301
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Alyson Pubns

Summary

Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Anne Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity. Marketing Plans: National Advertising: The Advocate Academic mailing to gender studies and queer studies professors Media campaign hilighting authors Nestle and Wilchins Joan Nestle is the cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York and the writer and editor of six books including the groundbreaking Women on Women series. Riki Anne Wilchins is the executive director of GenderPAC, the national gender advocacy group, and the cofounder of the Gender Identity Project of New York City's Lesbian and Gay Center. She is the author of Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Clare Howell is a senior librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Table of Contents

Introductions: Three Voices
Genders on My Mind	3	(8)
Joan Nestle
A Continuous Nonverbal Communication	11	(7)
Riki Wilchins
Stories	18	(5)
Clare Howell
A Certain Kind of Freedom: Power and the Truth of Bodies---Four Essays on Gender
Riki Wilchins
It's Your Gender, Stupid	23	(10)
Queerer Bodies	33	(14)
Changing the Subject	47	(8)
Deconstructing Trans	55	(12)
Stories
Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones	67	(19)
Sylvia Rivera
Vision	86	(4)
Aaron Link
Freaks	90	(4)
Aaron Link
Scars	94	(2)
Aaron Link
Scars	96	(2)
Hilda Raz
A Conversation With JT LeRoy	98	(6)
Dutch	104	(4)
Debbie Fraker
Vignettes	108	(5)
Charlotte
Loving Outside Simple Lines	113	(7)
Sonya Bolus
World's Youngest	120	(5)
Mollie Biewald
Packing a Rod	125	(2)
Allen James
Not as if You Felt That Way	127	(3)
Allen James
A Life	130	(13)
Shirle
Liminal	143	(4)
Peggy Munson
Do Your Ears?	147	(9)
Peggy Munson
Do It on the Dotted Line	156	(5)
Raven Kaldera
Fading to Pink	161	(5)
Robin Maltz
Passing Realities	166	(5)
Allie Lie
Who Knows What Evil Lurks?	171	(4)
Lucas Dzmura
My Woman Poppa	175	(4)
Joan Nestle
A Femme's Diary	179	(3)
Joan Nestle
I Walked Into the Oaks Club	182	(8)
Chino Lee Chung
Transie	190	(4)
Ethan Zimmerman
Story of a Preadolescent Drag King	194	(8)
L. Maurer
Two Women	202	(2)
Loree Cook-Daniels
Affronting Reason	204	(16)
Cheryl Chase
A Safe Trip Home	220	(3)
Dawn Dougherty
Would I Dare? There Penis Envy	223	(5)
Toni Amato
Wanting Men	228	(10)
Lionhart
Twenty Passings	238	(9)
Stacey Montgomery
Courage From Necessity	247	(3)
Mr. Barb Greve
Whose Body Is This Anyway?	250	(3)
C. Jacob Hale
Performing Translesbian	253	(7)
Nancy Nangeroni
Gordene MacKenzie
Disorderly Fashion	260	(3)
Wally Baird
This Butch Body	263	(4)
Kristen Walker
Be a Man	267	(6)
Susan Wright
The A Train	273	(2)
Carrie Davis
Rules	275	(4)
Carrie Davis
Transy House	279	(5)
Rusty Mae Moore
The Gender Cops Work Overtime	284	(5)
Gina Reiss
Epilogue Gender Rights Are Human Rights	289
Riki Wilchins