[List of figures] -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: transgender studies 2.0 -- Transgender perspectives in (and on) radical political economy -- Normalized transgressions : legitimizing the transsexual body as productive / Dan Irving -- Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence : the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance / Sarah Lamble -- Artful concealment and strategic visibility : transgender bodies and U.S. state surveillance after 9/11 / Toby Beauchamp -- Tracing this body : transsexuality, pharmaceuticals & capitalism / Michelle O'Brien -- Transsexual necropolitics / Jin Haritaworn and C. Riley Snorton -- Making trans-culture(s) : texts, performances, artifacts -- "The white to be angry" : vaginal creme Davis' terrorist drag / Jose Esteban Muñoz -- Felt matters / Jeanne Vaccaro -- Groping theory : haptic cinema and trans-curiosity in Hans Scheirl's dandy dust / Eliza Steinbock -- The transgender look / J. Halberstam -- Embracing transition, or dancing in the folds of time / Julian Carter -- Transsexing humanimality -- Selections from evolution's rainbow : diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people / Joan Roughgarden -- Animal transsex / Myra Hird -- Animals without genitals : race and transsubstantiation / Mel Chen -- Lessons from a starfish / Eva Hayward -- Interdependent ecological transsex : notes on re/production, "transgender" fish, and the management of populations, species, and resources / Bailey Keir -- Transfeminisms -- Feminist solidarity after queer theory : the case of transgender / Cressida Heyes -- Inclusive pedagogy in the women's studies classroom : teaching the Kimberly Nixon case / Viviane Namaste (with Georgia Sitara) -- Skirt chasers : why the media depicts the trans revolution in lipstick and heels / Julia Serano -- The education of little cis : cisgender and the discipline of opposing bodies / A. Finn Enke -- Our bodies are not ourselves : tranny guys and the racialized class politics of incoherence / Bobby Noble -- Cross talk : contention and complexity in trans-discourses -- Body shame, body pride : lessons from the disability rights movement / Eli Clare -- The pharmaco-pornographic regime : sex, gender, and subjectivity in the age of punk capitalism / Beatriz Preciado -- Evil deceivers and make-believers : on transphobic violence and the politics of illusion / Talia Mae Bettcher -- "Still at the back of the bus" : Sylvia Rivera's struggle / Jessi Gan -- Transgender subjectivity and the logic of sexual difference / Shanna Carlson -- Timely matters : temporality and trans-historicity -- Towards a transgender archaeology : a queer rampage through prehistory / Mary Weismantel -- Selections from "before the tribade : medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure" / Karma Lochrie -- Extermination of the joyas : gendercide in Spanish California / Deborah A. Miranda -- Before transgender : transvestia's gender spectrum, 1960-1980 / Robert Hill -- Reading transsexuality in "gay" Tehran (around 1979) / Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Being there : the (im)material locations of trans-phenomena -- Between surveillance and liberation : the lives of cross-dressed male sex workers in early postwar Japan / Todd Henry -- An ethics of transsexual difference : luce irigaray and the place of sexual undecideability / Gayle Salamon -- Touching gender : abjection and the hygienic imagination / Sheila Cavanaugh -- Perverse citizenship : divas, marginality, and participation in "loca-lization" / Marcia Ochoa -- Thinking figurations otherwise : reframing dominant knowledges of sex and gender variance in Latin America / Vek Lewis -- Going somewhere : transgender movement(s) -- Transgender without organs? : mobilizing a geo-affective theory of gender modification / Lucas Crawford -- Longevity and limits in Rae Bourbon's life in motion / Don Romesberg -- The romance of the amazing scalpel : race, affect and labor in thai gender reassignment clinics / Aren Z. Aizura -- Trans/scriptions : homing desires, (trans)sexual citizenship and racialized bodies / Nael Bhanji -- Transportation : translating Filipino/Filipino-American tomboy masculinities through seafaring and migration / Kale Fajardo -- Biopolitics and the administration of trans-embodiment(s) -- Kaming mga talyada (we who are sexy) : the transsexual whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the (post)colonial Philippines / Susan Stryker -- Electric brilliancy : cross-dressing law and freak show displays in nineteenth-century San Francisco / Clare Sears -- Shuttling between bodies and borders : transmigration and the politics of rightful killing / Sima Shakhsari -- Silhouettes of defiance : the memorialization of historical sites of queer and transgender resistance in an age of neoliberal inclusivity / Che Gossett -- Neutering the transgendered : human rights and Japan's Law No. 111 / Laura Norton -- Trans-oriented practices, policies, and social change -- "We won't know who you are" : contesting sex designations in New York City birth certificates / Paisley Currah and Lisa Jean Moore -- Reinscribing normality : the politics of transgender marriage / Ruthann Robson -- Performance as intravention : ballroom culture and the politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit / Marlon Bailey -- Transgender as mental illness : nosology, social justice, and the tarnished golden mean / Nick Gorton -- Building an abolitionist trans & queer movement with everything we've got / Dean Spade, Morgan Bassichis and Alex Lee -- Permissions -- Index.