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When monsters speak : a Susan Stryker reader / Susan Stryker ; edited by McKenzie Wark.

By: Stryker, Susan [author.].
Contributor(s): Wark, McKenzie, 1961- [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Asterisk (Duke University Press): Publisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 200 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781478030478 (paperback); 9781478026259 (hardback).Other title: Susan Stryker reader.Subject(s): Transgender people -- Study and teaching | Identity politics -- Political aspects -- California -- San Francisco | Gender identity -- Political aspects -- California -- San Francisco | Sexual minority culture -- California -- San Francisco | Transgender artists -- California -- San Francisco | Queer theory | Feminist theory | Marginality, Social | Fetishism (Sexual behavior)DDC classification: 306.7680979461
Contents:
Trick dive -- The surgeon haunts my dreams -- Renaissance and apocalypse : notes on the Bay Area's transsexual arts scene -- Across the border : on the anarchorporeality project -- Los Angeles at night -- Dungeon intimacies : the poetics of transsexual sadomasochism -- Perfect day -- Ketamine journal -- Sea beams glitter -- The time has come to think about Gayle Rubin -- Transgender feminism : queering the woman question -- Transgender history, homonormativity, and disciplinarity -- Lesbian generations : transsexual...lesbian...feminist -- My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix : performing transgender rage -- Transgender studies : queer theory's evil twin -- Transing the queer (in)human -- More words about "My words to Victor Frankenstein" -- Interview, McKenzie Wark and Susan Stryker.
Summary: "When Monsters Speak collects essays from across the career of Susan Stryker, a foundational scholar in trans studies. Editor McKenzie Wark pairs Stryker's best-known articles with obscure texts, to ground her thought in its historical and geographical roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her introduction highlights Stryker's debt to early queer theory, media studies, autotheory, and subcultural forms of knowledge production, as well as the innovative forms of scholarship she helped promote through the articulation of interdisciplinary transgender studies. When Monsters Speak is organized into three parts: "Trans SanFrisco" explores Bay Area queer and trans life and S/M culture; "Trans Theory as Gender Theory" addresses the politics of trans knowledge and the power of normative gender institutions; and "When Monsters Speak" reflects on Stryker's best-known work, "My Words to Victor Frankenstein." In these groupings, the book brings together not only threads of Stryker's thought but also moments in trans culture, from the 1990s to the present day" - provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak showcases the development of Stryker's writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as "My Words to Victor Frankenstein," with her hard to find earlier work published in zines and newsletters. Brought together, they ground Stryker's thought in 1990s San Francisco and its innovative queer, trans, and S/M cultures. The volume includes an introduction by editor McKenzie Wark, who highlights Stryker's connections to developments in queer theory, media studies, and autotheory while foregrounding Stryker's innovative writing style and scholarly methods. When Monsters Speak is an authoritative and essential collection by one of the most important and influential intellectuals of our time.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and index.

Trick dive -- The surgeon haunts my dreams -- Renaissance and apocalypse : notes on the Bay Area's transsexual arts scene -- Across the border : on the anarchorporeality project -- Los Angeles at night -- Dungeon intimacies : the poetics of transsexual sadomasochism -- Perfect day -- Ketamine journal -- Sea beams glitter -- The time has come to think about Gayle Rubin -- Transgender feminism : queering the woman question -- Transgender history, homonormativity, and disciplinarity -- Lesbian generations : transsexual...lesbian...feminist -- My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix : performing transgender rage -- Transgender studies : queer theory's evil twin -- Transing the queer (in)human -- More words about "My words to Victor Frankenstein" -- Interview, McKenzie Wark and Susan Stryker.

"When Monsters Speak collects essays from across the career of Susan Stryker, a foundational scholar in trans studies. Editor McKenzie Wark pairs Stryker's best-known articles with obscure texts, to ground her thought in its historical and geographical roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her introduction highlights Stryker's debt to early queer theory, media studies, autotheory, and subcultural forms of knowledge production, as well as the innovative forms of scholarship she helped promote through the articulation of interdisciplinary transgender studies. When Monsters Speak is organized into three parts: "Trans SanFrisco" explores Bay Area queer and trans life and S/M culture; "Trans Theory as Gender Theory" addresses the politics of trans knowledge and the power of normative gender institutions; and "When Monsters Speak" reflects on Stryker's best-known work, "My Words to Victor Frankenstein." In these groupings, the book brings together not only threads of Stryker's thought but also moments in trans culture, from the 1990s to the present day" - provided by publisher.

MTU Cork Module ARTS9010 - Supplementary reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (1)
  • Part I Trans Sanfrisco
  • 1 Trick Dive (23)
  • 2 The Surgeon Haunts My Dreams (30)
  • 3 Renaissance And Apocalypse: Notes on the Bay Area's Transsexual Arts Scene (34)
  • 4 Across the Border: On the Anarchorporeality Project A Discussion between Kathy High and Susan Stryker (41)
  • 5 Los Angeles at Night (51)
  • 6 Dungeon Intimacies: The Poetics of Transsexual Sadomasochism (58)
  • 7 Perfect Day (72)
  • 8 Ketamine Journal (83)
  • 9 See Beams Glitter (87)
  • Part II Trans Theory as Gender Theory
  • 10 The Time has Come to Think About Gayle Rubin (93)
  • 11 Transgender Feminism; Queering the Woman Question (98)
  • 12 Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity (109)
  • 13 Lesbian Generations: Transsexual… Lesbian… Feminist (123)
  • Part III When Monsters Speak
  • 14 My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage (133)
  • 15 Transgender Studies: Queer Theory's Evil Twin (151)
  • 16 Transing the Queer (In)Human (155)
  • 17 More Words About "My Words to Victor Frankenstein" (159)
  • Conclusion. Interview, McKenzie Wark and Susan Stryker (165)
  • Bibliography (179)
  • Index (189)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

Wark (Raving), a media studies professor at the New School, brings together trenchant essays by trans theorist Stryker (Transgender History). In "Perfect Day," Stryker recounts realizing as a young child that she didn't identify as a boy and laments that it took years for her to embrace the trans label because she didn't see herself in the prevailing psychiatric descriptions of trans individuals as "deeply disturbed people who feared being homosexual." Several pieces explore the San Francisco queer and kink communities in which Stryker has spent much of her life. For example, the essay "Dungeon Intimacies" reflects on how, in the 1990s, the city's sadomasochism scene provided "a mechanism for dismembering and disarticulating received patterns of identification, affect, sensation, and appearance." Stryker provides a bracing assessment of frictions within the LGBTQ movement, criticizing cis gay and lesbian individuals who seek to secure a place in mainstream society by excluding trans people. Some of the most powerful entries are the most personal, as when Stryker writes of the affinity she feels with Frankenstein's monster: "Like that creature, I assert my worth as a monster in spite of the conditions my monstrosity requires me to face and redefine a life worth living." The result is a striking introduction to the work of an essential queer thinker. (July)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Susan Stryker is the coauthor of "Gay by the Bay", a historical look at gay life in San Francisco, as well as "Gay Pulp" and "Lesbian Pulp Address Books". She currently works as Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society in San Francisco.

(Bowker Author Biography)