Table of Contents
 


Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Trans Woman Manifesto


PART 1 - Trans/Gender Theory
 
Chapter 1 - Coming to Terms with Transgenderism and Transsexuality
Chapter 2 - Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Depicts the Trans Revolution in ...
Trans Woman Archetypes in the Media
The Fascination with “Feminization”
The Media’s Transgender Gap
Feminist Depictions of Trans Women
Chapter 3 - Before and After: Class and Body Transformations
Chapter 4 - Boygasms and Girlgasms: A Frank Discussion About Hormones and ...
Chapter 5 - Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement
Chapter 6 - Intrinsic Inclinations: Explaining Gender and Sexual Diversity
Reconciling Intrinsic Inclinations with Social Constructs
Chapter 7 - Pathological Science: Debunking Sexological and Sociological Models ...
Oppositional Sexism and Sex Reassignment
Traditional Sexism and Effemimania
Critiquing the Critics
Moving Beyond Cissexist Models of Transsexuality
Chapter 8 - Dismantling Cissexual Privilege
Gendering
Cissexual Assumption
Cissexual Gender Entitlement
The Myth of Cissexual Birth Privilege
Trans-Facsimilation and Ungendering
Moving Beyond “Bio Boys” and “Genetic Girls”
Third-Gendering and Third-Sexing
Passing-Centrism
Taking One’s Gender for Granted
Distinguishing Between Transphobia and Cissexual Privilege
Trans-Exclusion
Trans-Objectification
Trans-Mystification
Trans-Interrogation
Trans-Erasure
Changing Gender Perception, Not Performance
Chapter 9 - Ungendering in Art and Academia
Capitalizing on Transsexuality and Intersexuality
Toying with Gender-Ambiguous Characters
Fables of the Deconstruction


PART 2 - Trans Women, Femininity, and Feminism
 
Chapter 10 - Experiential Gender
Chapter 11 - Deconstructive Surgery
Chapter 12 - Bending Over Backwards: Traditional Sexism and ...
Chapter 13 - Self-Deception
Chapter 14 - Trans-Sexualization
Chapter 15 - Submissive Streak
Chapter 16 - Love Rant
Chapter 17 - Crossdressing: Demystifying Femininity and Rethinking “Male Privilege”
Effemimania and Feminine Expression
Enforced Ignorance and the Mystification of Femininity
Crossdresser Development
Demystifying Femininity and Unlearning Masculinity
Rethinking “Male Privilege”
Chapter 18 - Barrette Manifesto
Chapter 19 - Putting the Feminine Back into Feminism
Origins of Femininity
Sexist Interpretations of Femininity
Feminist Interpretations of Femininity
The Ramifications of Artificializing Femininity
Chapter 20 - The Future of Queer/Trans Activism


Notes
Credits
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Selected Titles from Seal Press
Copyright Page