Terrorizing Gender
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Terrorizing Gender

Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State

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Terrorizing Gender

Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State

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2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association (NCA) 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 accesslaws, 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.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781496218506
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
LGBT Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor
  11. 2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire
  12. 3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life
  13. 4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign
  14. 5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist
  15. Coda
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. About Mia Fischer
  20. Series List