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Recovering a Gender‐Transgressive Past: A Transgender Historiography

This chapter tracks the development of the field of transgender history over the past three decades and considers some of the ways in which its emergence has reshaped lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer history, histories of sexuality, and women’s and gender history more broadly. Susan Stryker has published Transgender History, which offers readers both a…

Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Transgender Activism and the Net: Global Activism or Casualty of Globalisation

“Transsexuality and transgender are contested terms which signify in a range of ways. This chapter does not seek to destabilise different experiences of transgendered or transsexual subjects. However, it does question some models of transsexual identity — as a passive subject (Hausman 1995) or pathologised — and some ideas of transgender articulated in popular cyberculture,…

History Nonfiction Theory

Introduction: Why Queer German History?

This essay examines ways in which historians might learn from queer approaches to the past. Drawing inspiration from queer theory and ideas long circulating in cultural, literary and medieval studies, it argues that there is much to be gained when we adopt a more self-reflexive, genealogical, context-specific analysis of lives lived. A queered history interrogates…

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Foreword: When Gender Can’t Be Seen amid the Symbols: Women and the Mexican Revolution

Sex in Revolution challenges the prevailing narratives of the Mexican Revolution and postrevolutionary state formation by placing women at center stage. Bringing to bear decades of feminist scholarship and cultural approaches to Mexican history, the essays in this book demonstrate how women seized opportunities created by modernization efforts and revolutionary upheaval to challenge conventions of…

Archive History Nonfiction Photography Theory

Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Amelio Robles’s (Transgender) Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution

One can almost see it: a smile of satisfaction spreading across Amelio Robles’s face as he looks at the studio portrait in which he poses like a dandy: dark suit, white shirt, tie, wide-brimmed black hat, leather shoes, and a white handkerchief peeking out of the breast pocket.¹ Standing with a cigarette in one hand…

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No Other World 01

In part One of Ten, a pair of synthesized humans hitchhike away from abusive work camps of their past and into the hellish mega-cities of their future… “A strained transmission from the massive and terrifying citadel of so-called human experience? Black Iron Prison: epistle on the beauty of sadness–and salvation found through sin. Like crying…

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Trans-feminist punk in the United States: Collective action, activism, and a libidinal economy of noise

This chapter explores the tripartite relationship between transgender identities, political activism, and sonic practice. In particular, this chapter employs theorizations of noise to explore a rupture in the prevalent binarisms of sound and gender in the American punk scene and its aesthetics. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks such as Herbert Marcuse’s one-dimensional society and Jean-François Lyotard’s…