{"product_id":"terrorizing-gender-transgender-visibility-and-the-surveillance-practices-of-the-u-s-security-state-paperback-softback-9781496230539","title":"Terrorizing Gender; Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496230539","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTerrorizing Gender\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMia Fischer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496230539\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages, 13 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Fischer’s novel approach . . . yields utterly compelling analytical results and promises to make a lasting contribution to work on the racialized surveillance practices of the state by accenting its gendered aspects.”-Rachel Hall, \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Studies in Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Fischer's book makes a valuable addition to scholarship on (the failures of) assimilationist and rights-based LGBT political movements. It also intervenes in broader social and cultural debates about the politics of inclusion and the politics of visibility, with the chosen case studies offering a vital counterpoint to progress-oriented narratives. It promises appeal to gender and sexuality studies scholars and students working in media studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, and surveillance studies.\"-C.L. Quinan, \u003ci\u003eIMPACT\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Gender\u003c\/i\u003e is an incendiary contribution to media studies and transgender studies. With brilliant rigor, Fischer shows how recent U.S. transgender visibility has occasioned a revival of narratives presenting trans people as deviant and threatening. . . . The result, as Fischer masterfully illustrates, is an extremely limited public trans visibility, premised on replicating white supremacy and violent policing of those trans people who do not or will not comply with state regulation. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in transgender politics and media.”-Aren Z. Aizura, assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota, and author of \u003ci\u003eMobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Mia Fischer’s \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Gender \u003c\/i\u003evaluably unsettles normative assumptions and reveals precarious implications of the vaunted transgender ‘tipping point.’. . . \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Gender\u003c\/i\u003e’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 \u003ci\u003eQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Methodologically innovative and theoretically sophisticated, this brave book exposes how transgender people in the United States are increasingly subject to state-sanctioned violence and surveillance practices. . . . This book will occupy a central place on my shelf as it bridges the fields of surveillance, trans, and media studies, and critical race and feminist theory. I can’t wait to teach it.”-Shoshana Magnet, associate professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“An essential resource for students of queer and trans media, and more broadly media studies students seeking to understand the relationship between representation and lived experiences. . . . The substantiation in \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Gender \u003c\/i\u003eof the many ways in which (hyper)visibility in the media reproduces and reinforces the state’s regulation of trans lives is a timely and valuable addition to the existing trans, queer, and feminist media scholarship on visibility and will assuredly inform the future of these fields.”-Ash Kinney d’Harcourt, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Media Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Gender\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately asks media scholars to move beyond reductive debates over “good” and “bad” representation, instead pointing to the more insidious ways in which visibility as a directive both obscures more entrenched struggles in marginalized communities as well as contributes directly to increased political violence toward those who are most at risk.\"-Erique Zhang, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Reveal[s] a set of interlocking and coordinated harms, psychic and physical, that course through individual and group actors, mass media representations, and the state.”-Jeanie Austin, \u003ci\u003eRGWS: A Feminist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine’s declaration that 2014 marked a “transgender tipping point,” was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. In \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Gender \u003c\/i\u003eMia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress, bringing together transgender, queer, critical race, legal, surveillance, and media studies to analyze the cases of Chelsea Manning, CeCe McDonald, and Monica Jones. Tracing how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of these trans women, Fischer exposes the traps of visibility by illustrating that dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are integral to justifying, normalizing, and reinforcing the state-sanctioned violence enacted against them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The heightened visibility of transgender people, Fischer argues, has actually occasioned a conservative backlash characterized by the increased surveillance of trans people by the security state, evident in debates over bathroom laws, the trans military ban, and the rescission of federal protections for transgender students and workers. \u003ci\u003eTerrorizing Gender\u003c\/i\u003e concludes that the current moment of trans visibility constitutes a contingent cultural and national belonging, given the gendered and racialized violence that the state continues to enact against trans communities, particularly those of color.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Transgender Tipping Point?    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign    \u003cbr\u003e 5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist    \u003cbr\u003e Coda: The Perils of Transgender Visibility    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735372951832,"sku":"9781496230539","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/terrorizing-gender-transgender-visibility-and-the-surveillance-practices-of-the-u-s-security-state-paperback-softback-9781496230539","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}