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Week One: Introduction to a Genderqueer Points of View
- A: Discussion
"A Subversive Glossary", Riki Anne Wilchins
- B: Seminal Texts
"17 Things You DON'T Say To A Transexual", "What Does It Cost To Tell
The Truth?", "Imaginary Bodies, Imagining Minds", "A Fascism of Meaning",
Wilchins
- C: Seminal Texts cont.
Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
Week Two: Visibility and Visuality: The Performance of Trans
- A: Trans-Looks
Body Alchemy, Loren Cameron; "Portrait Gallery", Leslie Feinberg;
"Imitation and Gender Insubordination", Judith Butler
- B: Trans Performance and Its Legibility
The Crying Game; "The Scorpion and the Frog", Amy
Zilliax; "Black Femmes Fatales...", James
- C: Discussion
Week Three: Performed Subjectivities
- A: Three Performances
M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang; "Videotape", Wilchins;
"A Man in the House: The Boyfriends of Travesti Prostitutes", Don Kulick
- B: Trans through Time
Orlando; "Transgender, Transgenre, and the Transnational:
Sally Potter's Orlando", Anne Ciecko
- C: Discussion
Week Four: Borderline Narratives
- A: On the Gender Border
Stone Butch Blues, Feinberg
- B: The Negotiation of Borders and Categories
"One is Not Born a Woman", Monique Wittig; "Passing", Carole-Anne Tyler;
"Why Identity Politics Really, Really Sucks", Wilchins
- C: Discussion
Week Five: Transsexual Autobiography
- A: The First Wave
"The Story of My Life", Christine Jorgensen; Second Serve, Renee
Richards; "Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiographies", Bernice L.
Hausman; "Transsexual Autobiography: The First Wave", Pat Califia
- B: Documentary
You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men, Northern Lights
Productions; "Unheimlich Manuvers: The Genres and Genders of
Transsexual Documentary", Christie Milliken
- C: Discussion
Week Six: Erotica
- A: Pulp Erotica
Roughriders website, especially "Slow Burn", Raven Caldera, "Eroticism: On
the Uses of Difference", Wilchins
- B: PoMo Erotica
"Lines in the Sand, Cries of Desire", Wilchins; Justify My Love,
Madonna;
"Uses of the Erotic", Audre Lorde; "Stroking My Inner Fag", Jill Nagle;
"Leatherdyke Boys and Their Daddies", C. Jacob Hale
- C: Discussion
Week Seven: How Do We Read Trans Subjectivity?
Week Eight: The Body
- A: Can We Lose It?
Nearly Roadkill, Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan
- B: Did We Really Lose It?
"The Virtual Body in Cyberspace", Anne Balsamo
- C: Discussion
Week Nine: The (Inter)sexed Body
- A: Biology
ISNA and Intersex Voices homepages; "The Five Sexes", Anne Fausto-Sterling
- B: Culture
- C: Discussion
Week Ten: The Medical Establishment
- A: The Social Construction of Science
"Society Writes Biology/Biology Constructs Gender", Anne Fausto-Sterling;
Brain Sex "Quiz", Anne Moir and David Jessel; "Bem's Sex Role
Inventory"
- B: Surgical Requirements
"Harry Benjamin's Standards of Care", Harry Benjamin; "Sex! Is a Verb"
and "Our Cunts Are Not the Same", Wilchins
- C: Discussion
Week Eleven: Gender Identity Disorder
- A: All in Our Heads?
The Last Time I Wore A Dress, Daphne Scholinski; DSM IV excerpt
- B: GID in French, and Parental Dysphoria
Ma Vie En Rose, Columbia/Tristar Studios
- C: Discussion
Week Twelve: Feminism Responds to Transsexuals and the Medical
Establishment
- A: Backlash or Ally?
The Transsexual Empire, Janice Raymond
- B: Response
"The Menace Response to Janice Raymond", Wilchins
- C: Discussion
Week Thirteen: At A Crossroads With the Queer Movement: Activism and
Contemporary Politics
- A: Yea or Nay?
"Birth of the Homosexual" and "The Gay Games Controversy", Wilchins;
Transgender Nation, Michelangelo Signorile; "Transgendered Like Me",
Gabriel Rotello; "New Genders and Pansexualities", Zachary Nataf
- B: Trans(Action)
Transgender Warriors, "Chapters 14-15", Feinberg; "The Menace in Michigan
and Photographs from a Movement", Wilchins
- C: Discussion
Week Fourteen: Ownership and Access
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