Description:
Using an interdisciplinary framework, Mia Fischer connects media coverage with state regulation of transgender people to show how, despite their increased visibility in national discourse, dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are used to justify, even normalize, state-sanctioned violence against transgender communities.
Review Quotes: "Mia Fischer's Terrorizing Gender valuably unsettles normative assumptions and reveals precarious implications of the vaunted transgender 'tipping point.'. . . Terrorizing Gender's compelling necropolitical critique floodlights the conditions and obfuscations of trans precarity, and its closing call to embody Tourmaline's politics of 'nobodiness' offers a promising glimpse of visibility's queer future."--Charles E. Morris III, professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking-- (2/23/2019 12:00:00 AM)