Terrorizing Gender
Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State
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2019
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0674-9 (ISBN)
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
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The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media 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.
2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association
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.
The heightened visibility of transgender people, Fischer argues, has actually occasioned a conservative backlash characterized by the increased surveillance of trans people by the security state, evident in debates over bathroom laws, the trans military ban, and the rescission of federal protections for transgender students and workers. Terrorizing Gender concludes that the current moment of trans visibility constitutes a contingent cultural and national belonging, given the gendered and racialized violence that the state continues to enact against trans communities, particularly those of color.
2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association
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.
The heightened visibility of transgender people, Fischer argues, has actually occasioned a conservative backlash characterized by the increased surveillance of trans people by the security state, evident in debates over bathroom laws, the trans military ban, and the rescission of federal protections for transgender students and workers. Terrorizing Gender concludes that the current moment of trans visibility constitutes a contingent cultural and national belonging, given the gendered and racialized violence that the state continues to enact against trans communities, particularly those of color.
Mia Fischer is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Transgender Tipping Point?
1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor
2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire
3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life
4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign
5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist
Coda: The Perils of Transgender Visibility
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.10.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
| Zusatzinfo | 13 illustrations, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-0674-6 / 1496206746 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-0674-9 / 9781496206749 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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