Bisexuality and Transgenderism

InterSEXions of the Others

Fritz Klein, Karen Yescavage, Jonathan Alexander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781560232872
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135833190
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Personalidad en psicología

Explore the common groundand the important differencesbetween bisexuality and transgenderism!

This book, guaranteed to provoke debate and discussion of sexuality and gender, is the first devoted exclusively to the relationship between transgenderism and bisexuality. Combining the work of scholars and activists, professional writers and lay people, Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others proesents ideas, thoughts, feelings, and insights from a variety of contributors who are committed to understandingand deepening our understanding ofgender and sexuality. You'll find scholarly essays, narratives, poetry, and a revealing interview with four male-to-female transsexuals, two of whom are married to women who also participate in the discussion. In addition, the book includes insightful chapters by well-known advocates of transgenderism, including Jamison James Green, Coralee Drechsler, and Matthew Kailey.

The editors of Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others make the provocative but crucial claim that the larger queer community looks at B and T lives as mere add-ons to L and G. In this book they focus attention on bisexuality and transgenderismmoving the margins to center stage and exploring how sexuality, gender, desire, and intimacy are constructed and circulate in our society. The book's inclusion of voices and scholarship from Eastern cultures challenges our understanding of sexuality and gender constructions all the more, giving this collection a global scope.

Here is a sample of what Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others examines:

• biphobia and transphobia within the United States' gay and lesbian community
• the bi/trans and subversive aspects of the works and images of cultural icons Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bernhardt
• how bisexual and transgendered identities are socially constructed through relationships
• the false promise of pomosexual playwhy the concepts of postmodern sexuality fail to rewrite the construction of gender
• why swingers who practice bisexual and transgender behavior are often disdained and marginalized by other GLBT people
• suicidal thoughts and other mental health concerns of bisexual males and females, as well as transgender people
• Eastern perspectives on sexual/gender identitieswith revealing chapters on gender identity in Japan and Indonesia

Index

a day in the life of p, xiv

A Diary of Lies–Belladonna #27, xiv

“A ‘Genethics’ That Makes Sense,” 78

A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, xiv

Academy Awards, 187

Actor’s Revenge, 223

Adat, 236

Aidentiti, 222

AIDS Council of New South Wales, 123

Ailles, J.L., xiii, 71

AIMS Community College, xv

Akiko, N., 212

Akogare, 225

Alexander, J., xii, 17, 129

Alexander the Great, 34

Altman, D., 43

Altman, R., 175

Amachua, 217

Amachua joso, 216

“Amateur” transgender movement, rise of, 216–220

American Bar Association, 50

American Psychiatric Association (APA), 51

American Psychiatric Association (APA) Joint Commission on Public Affairs, 32

Ance’, 235, 238, 239, 242, 243, 244

Androgen insensitivity syndrome, 260

Anglophone, 209

Antoinette, M., 34

Anything That Moves, 7, 9

APA. See American Psychiatric Association (APA)

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, 284

Auckland University of Technology, xiv

Aufgabe, xiv

Augsburg College, xv

Auslander, P., 175

Avoid Strange Men, xiv

Ayame, Y., 205

Bai, 222

Barbin, H., 81

Bathhouse, xiv

Baxter, L., 158

BBS (bulletin-board system), 218

Becoming a Visible Man, xiv

Behavior(s), bisexual and transgender identities effects on, 97

Bencong, 240

Benjamin, H., 37

Benkert, K.M., 255

Berkeley Poetry Review, xvi

Bernhard, S., 18

works of, bisexuality and queer Jewish space in, 171–179

Betty’s Mayonnaise, 213

Bi (B), defined, 4

“Bi-eroticism,” 223

Biphobia

history of, 43–48

nature of, 28–35

within U.S. gay and lesbian community, 26–55

conflict in, roots of, 35–48

Bird Dog Magazine, xiv

“Bis Feel Left Out,” 47

Bisexual(s), transsexuals and, concerns in common among, 63–69

Bisexu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Contributors
• Introductions
• Intersecting Communities: B/T Concerns in Common
• Real(Izing) Lives: Personal and Theoretical B/T Identity Formations
• Reel Lives: B/T Pop Cultural Icons
• Western Intersections, Eastern Approximations
• Steering Queer of Lgbti Identity Politics
• Index