Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State Contributor(s): Fischer, Mia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496206746 ISBN-13: 9781496206749 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
Dewey: 306.768 |
LCCN: 2019005291 |
Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 282 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazine's declaration that 2014 marked a "transgender tipping point," was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. In Terrorizing Gender Mia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress, bringing together transgender, queer, critical race, legal, surveillance, and media studies to analyze the cases of Chelsea Manning, CeCe McDonald, and Monica Jones. Tracing how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of these trans women, Fischer exposes the traps of visibility by illustrating that dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are integral to justifying, normalizing, and reinforcing the state-sanctioned violence enacted against them. |