Transhistory Colloquium

HIST 207D/307D FEMGEN 207D/307D

Spring 2020
Tues/Thurs 3:00-4:20 at https://stanford.zoom.us/j/792867377

Laura Stokes
lpstokes@stanford.edu
office hours: TBA

Description
Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include
scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within
gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deepening transhistory through further
historical inquiry. The purpose of this course is to interrogate the emerging historiography of
transhistory along with the adjacent historiographies of gender and sexuality to identify avenues
for enriching the current scholarship with greater cultural, geographical, and historical depth.
Class will identify potential archives and methodologies for the pursuit of new questions within
transhistory, as well as scholarship supportive of such research.

Assignments and grading

Weekly reading and participation in discussion (50%)
The expectation is that students will attend each session having reviewed the assigned
reading and prepared to engage in a discussion of that reading. Please note that in
accordance with university guideline of three hours of work per week for each credit unit,
assigned readings will be selected (in the case of monographs) or divided among students
(in the case of collected essays) such that preparation time for each class is between three
and four hours. This leaves a few hours of credit time per week for the written
assignments due in weeks seven and ten.
Source analysis, genealogy of a term, or book review (20%) (~5 pages, due 5/12)
The general expectation here is that primary sources should be treated to source analysis,
while secondary sources should be treated to book reviews. In practice the categories of
primary and secondary sources overlap and this status depends on the scholarly approach.
Treating a text to a source analysis means analyzing it as one would a primary source,
while treating a text to a book review means analyzing its utility as a secondary source.
Suggestions are offered for each category, but students may choose other texts beyond
those suggested, or may choose to analyze a given text under the other analytical form.
Source analysis is a context-enriched reading of the utility of a given source to historical
analysis. It should contain an overview of the source, a discussion of the historical context of the
source, and critical or analytical engagement with the source. It should contain some discussion
of the historical questions the source can illuminate. It should also contain analysis of the
particular biases or paradigmatic assumptions under which the source was produced. A source
analysis often contains some close reading and original analysis of the source itself.
The genealogy of a term should be an historically enriched reading of a particular term across
multiple sources. It should draw on secondary material and definitions as well as an array of
primary sources with brief contextualizations.
A book review is a discursively-enriched reading of the utility of a given piece of scholarship to
historical research. It should contain an overview of the text, a discussion of the historiographical
or other disciplinary context in which it was produced, and a critical or analytical engagement
with the text. It should contain a discussion of the research contributions of the text as well as its
arguments or intentions. A book review is usually couched in polite collegial terms, in the
expectation that criticisms will be taken sharply by a living authorial audience; whether or not
this is the case, a book review is expected to be even-handed, praising the particular utilities of a
text that it elsewhere criticizes. Substantial articles are also available for review under this rubric.
Final paper (30%) (~15 pages, due 6/9)
Either a mini research paper with historiographically-enriched source analysis or term
genealogy, or a historiography paper reading broadly into the extant literature of a given
topic. Bibliography should contain 10-15 items, with students being encouraged to draw
these from the syllabus where possible.
Mini research paper should construct an analytical argument based on at least one primary source
and a focused reading of secondary sources. Essentially a source analysis or genealogy that has
been enriched with further outside sources and a stronger argument. A mini research paper may
serve as proof-of-concept for a larger project, and thus it may contain an element of proposal as
well as reporting on research completed. The burden of the mini research paper is to make
interesting and valid claims based on relatively narrow data.
Historiography paper should survey the extant literature on a given question and offer some
analysis or criticism of that literature. Historiography papers often include a suggestion of where
a particularly field should or likely will go in the near future. It is important to cast a broad net in
searching for the bibliography of such papers, using both databases (Historical Abstracts,
JSTOR) and paper methodologies (review articles, follow the footnotes).

Required books
Susan Stryker Transgender History. Roots of Today's Revolution (2008) 978-1580056892
Thomas Lacquer Making Sex. Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1992) 978-
0674543553
Stryker, et alii, Transgender Studies Reader, volumes 1 & 2 (2006 & 2013) 978-0415636957
Feuchtner, et alii, A Global History of Sexual Science (2018) 978-0520293397
C. Riley Snorton Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017) 978-
1517901738
Afsaneh Najmabadi Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary
Iran (2013) 978-0822355571

Schedule
When selecting among readings, entries in grey are not recommended
*Entries marked with a star are shared readings and points of concentration

Week 1
3/31 Tuesday (introduction)
4/2 Thursday Transgender History (prologue, chs. 1&2) (79)
prologue ix-xiii (4)
chapter 1: contexts, concepts and terms 1-44 (43)
chapter 2: a hundred-plus years of transgender history 45-77 (32)
Week 2
4/7 Tuesday Transgender History (chs. 4-6) (34-42pp plus skimming)
[skim all, select one to read closely]
chapter 3: trans liberation 79-113 (34)
chapter 4: the difficult decades 115-149 (34)
chapter 5: the millennial wave 151-193 (42)
chapter 6: the tipping point? 195-236 (41)

4/9 Thursday Making Sex (chs. 1-3) (37pp plus skimming)

[skim all, read chapter 2 closely]
chapter 1: of language and the flesh 1-24 (23)
*chapter 2: destiny is anatomy 25-62 (37)
chapter 3: new science, one flesh 63-113 (50)

Week 3
4/14 Tuesday Making Sex (chs. 4-6) (34pp plus skimming)
[skim all, read chapter 4 closely]
*chapter 4: representing sex 114-148 (34)
chapter 5: discovery of the sexes 149-192 (43)
chapter 6: sex socialized 193-243 (50)

4/16 Thursday Transgender Studies Reader volume 1, parts 1-2

{28-35}+{44-50}=72-85pp
I. Sex, gender, and science 19-20 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 8, select one more article to read] (2+7+15+{4-11}) =28-35
1. selections from Psychopathia Sexualis (Richard von Krafft-Ebing) 21-27 (7)
2. selections from The Transvestites (Magnus Hirschfeld) 28-39 (11)
3. Psychopathia Transexualis (David O. Cauldwell) 40-44 (5)
4. Transsexualism and transvestitism as psycho-somatic and somato-psychic syndromes (Harry
Benjamin) 45-52 (7)
5. selections from Biological substrates of sexual behavior (Robert Stoller) 53-57 (4)
6. Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an intersexed person (Harold Garfinkel)
58-93 (35)
7. selections from The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex (Charles Shepherdson) 94-102
(8)
*8. A cyborg manifesto: science, technology, and the socialist-feminism of the late twentieth
century (Donna Haraway) 103-118 (15)
II. Feminist investments 119-120 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 11 and 13, select one more article to read] (2+5+15+17+{5-11}) = 44-50
9. selections from Mother Camp (Ester Newton) 121-130 (9)
10. Sappho by Surgery: The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist (Janice G. Raymond)
131-143 (A selection from The Transsexual Empire) (12)
*11. Divided Sisterhood: A critical review of Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire (Carol
Riddel) 144-159 (15)
12. A Transvestite answers a feminist (Lou Sullivan) 159-164 (5)
*13. Toward a theory of gender (Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna) 165-182 (17)
14. Doing justice to someone: sex reassignment and allegories of transsexuality (Judith Butler)
183-193 (11)
15. Where did we go wrong? Feminism and trans theory - two teams on the same side? (Stephen
Whittle) 194-202 (9)

Week 4
4/21 Tuesday TSR, volume 1, parts 3-5 [true conference style]
{19-34}+{24-38}+{16-25} = 59-97pp
III. Queering gender 203-204 (2)
[read all abstracts, select one article to read] (2+8+{9-24}) = 19-34
16. Transgender Liberation: A movement whose time has come (Leslie Feinberg) 205-220 (16)
17. The empire strikes back: A posttranssexual manifesto (Sandy Stone) 221-236 (16)
18. Gender terror, gender rage (Kate Bornstein) 236-244 (9)
19. My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: Performing transgender
rage (Susan Stryker) 244-256 (13)
20. Judith Butler: Queer feminism, transgender, and the transubstantiation of sex (Jay Prosser)
257-280 (24)
21. Are lesbians women? (Jacob Hale) 281-299 (19)
22. Hermaphrodites with attitude: Mapping the emergence of intersex political activism (Cheryl
Chase) 300-314 (16)
23. Mutilating Gender (Dean Spade) 315-332 (18)
IV. Selves: identity and community
[read all abstracts, select one article to read] (2+9+{13-27}) =24-38pp
24. Body, technology, and gender in transsexual autobiographies (Bernice L. Hausman) 335-361
(27)
25. A "fierce and demanding" drive (Joanne Meyerowitz) 362-386 (25)
26. ONE inc. and Reed Erickson: The uneasy collaboration of gay and trans activism, 1964-2003
(Aaron H. Devor and Nicholas Matte) 387-406 (20)
27. "I went to bed with my own kind once": The erasure of desire in the name of identity (David
Valentine) 407-419 (13)
28. Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories (Nan Alamilla Boyd) 420-433 (14)
29. Manliness (Patrick Califia) 434-438 (5)
30. selections from Lesbians talk transgender (Zachary I. Nataf) 439-448 (10)
31. Gender without genitals: Hedwig's six inches (Jordy Jones) 449-468 (20)
V. Transgender masculinities 469-470
[read all abstracts, select one article to read] (2+6+{8-17}) = 16-25
32. Of catamites and kings: reflections on butch, gender, and boundaries (Gale Rubin) 471-481
(11)
33. The logic of treatment (Henry Rubin) 482-498 (17)
34. Look! No, don't! The visibility dilemma for transsexual men (Jamison Green) 499-508 (11)
35. Queering the binaries: Transsituated identities, bodies and sexualities (Jason Cromwell) 509-
520 (12)
36. selections from "Spoiled Identity": Stephen Gordon's loneliness and the difficulties of queer
history (Heather K. Love) 521-537 (17)
37. Transsexuals in the military: Flight into hypermasculinity (George R. Brown) 537-544 (8)
4/23 Thursday TSR, volume 1, parts 6-7
{34-45}+{25-36}=59-81pp
VI. Embodiment: ethics in time and space 545-546 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 43, select one more article to read] (2+6+20+{6-17}= 34-45
38. What does it cost to tell the truth? (Riki Anne Wilchins) 547-552 (6)
39. Transmogrification: (un)becoming other(s) (Nikki Sullivan) 552-564 (13)
40. Fin de siècle, fin du sex: transsexuality, postmodernism, and the death of history (Rita Felski)
565-573 (9)
41. Skinflick: posthuman gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (Judith
Halberstam) 574-583 (10)
42. Genderbashing: Sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space (Viviane K. Namaste)
584-600 (17)
*43. From the medical gaze to Sublime Mutations: The ethics of (re)viewing non-normative body
images (T. Benjamin Singer) 601-620 (20)
44. From functionality to aesthetics: The architecture of transgender jurisprudence (Andrew
Sharpe) 621-632 (12)
VII. Multiple Crossings: gender, nationality, and race 633-634 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 49, select one more article to read] (2+5+8+{10-21}=25-36
45. selections from The Chic of Araby: Transvestism and the erotics of cultural appropriation
(Marjorie Garber) 635-655 (21)
46. Transgender theory and embodiment: The risk of racial marginalization (Katrina Roen) 656-
665 (10)
47. Romancing the transgender native: Rethinking the use of the "third gender" concept (Evan B.
Towle and Lynn M. Morgan) 666-684 (19)
48. Unsung heroes: Reading transgender subjectivities in Hong Kong action cinema (Helen Hok-
Sze Leung 685-697) (13)
*49. Whose feminism is it anyway? The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate (Emi
Koyama) 698-705 (8)
50. Transgendering the politics of recognition (Richard Juang) 706-720 (15)

Week 5
4/28 Tuesday A Global History part 1
[read introduction, select one essay to read from part 1]
(25+{11-24})=36-49pp
*Introduction: Toward a global history of sexual science 1-25 (25)
1. Global modernity and sexual science: The case of male homosexuality and female
prostitution, 1880-1950 (Pablo Ben) 29-50 (22)
2. "Let us leave the hospital; let us go on a journey around the world": British and German sexual
science and the global search for sexual variation (Kate Fisher and Jana Funke) 51-69 (19)
3. Westermarck's Morocco: The epistemic politics of cultural anthropology and sexual science
(Ralph Leck) 70-96 (17)
4. Monogamy's nature: Global sexual science and the secularization of Christian marriage
(Angela Willey) 97-117 (11)
5. The "Hottentot Apron": Genital aberration in the history of sexual science (Rebecca Hodes)
118-141 (24)
4/30 Thursday A Global History part 2
[select two articles to read] {21+22-26+26}= 43-52pp
6. Sexology in the southwest: Law, medicine, and sexuality in Germany and its colonies (Robert
Deam Tobin) 141-162 (22)
7. Understanding R. D. Karve: Barmacharya, modernity, and the appropriation of global sexual
science in western India, 1927-1953 (Shrikant Botre and Douglas E. Haynes) 163-185 (23)
8. The "Ellis Effect": Translating sexual science in Republican China, 1911-1949 (Rachel Hui-
Chi Hsu) 186-210 (25)
9. Takahashi Tetsu and popular sexology in early postwar Japan, 1945-1970 (Marck McLelland)
211-231 (21)
10. Mexican sexology and male homosexuality: Genealogies and global contexts, 1860-1957
(Ryan M. Jones) 232-257 (26)
11. The science of sexual difference: Ogura Seizaburō, Hiratsuka Raichō, and the intersection of
sexology and feminism in early-twentieth-century Japan (Michiko Suzuki) 258-278 (21)
12. Time for sex: The education of desire and the conduct of childhood in global/Hindu sexology
(Ishita Pande) 279-304 (26)

Week 6
5/5 Tuesday A Global History part 3
[read 16 and afterword, select one more article to read]
(24+7+{12-25})= 43-56pp
13. Latin eugenics and sexual knowledge in Italy, Spain, and Argentina: International networks
across the Atlantic (Chiara Beccalossi) 305-329 (25)
14. "Forms so attenuated that the merge into normality itself": Alexander Lipschütz, Gregorio
Marañón, and theories of intersexuality in Chile, circa 1930 (Kurt MacMillan) 330-352 (23)
15. "Tyranny of Orgasm": Global governance of sexuality from Bombay, 1930s-1950s (Sanjam
Ahluwalia) 353-373 (21)
*16. Magnus Hirschfeld's Onnagata (Rainer Herrn) 374-397 (24)
17. Agnes Smedley between Berlin, Bombay, and Beijing: Sexology, communism, and national
independence (Veronika Fuechtner) 398-421 (24)
18. The limits of transnationalism: The case of Max Marcuse (Kirsten Long) 422-443 (12)
Afterword: In the shadow of empire: The words and worlds of sexual science (Howard Chiang)
444-450 (7)

5/7 Thursday TSR, vol. 2, parts 1-3

{25-40}+{15-21}+{15-18} = 55-79pp
I. Transgender perspectives in (and on) radical political economy 13-14 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 3, select one more to read] (2+3+10+{10-25}) = 25-40
1. Normalized transgressions: legitimizing the transsexual body as productive (Dan Irving) 15-29
(25)
2. Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: the politics of interlocking
oppressions in Transgender Day of Remembrance (Sarah Lamble) 30-45 (16)
*3. Artful concealment and strategic visibility: transgender bodies and U.S. state surveillance
after 9/11 (Toby Beauchamp) 46-55 (10)
4. Tracing this body: transsexuality, pharmaceuticals, and capitalism (Michelle O'Brien) 56-65
(10)
5. Trans Necropolitics: A transnational reflection on violence, death, and the trans of color
afterlife (C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn) 66-76 (11)
II. Making trans-culture(s): Texts, performances, artifacts 77-78 (2)
[read all abstracts, select one to read closely] 2+4+{9-15} = 15-21
6. "The white to be angry": Vaginal Davis's terrorist drag (José Estabon Muñoz) 79-90 (12)
7. Felt matters (Jeanne Vaccaro) 91-100 (10)
8. Groping theory: haptic cinema and trans-curiosity in Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust (Eliza
Steinbock) 101-118 (9)
9. The transgender look (J. Jack Halberstam) 119-129 (11)
10. Embracing transition, or dancing in the folds of time (Julian Carter) 130-144 (15)
III. Transsexing humanimality 145-146 (2)
[read all abstracts, select one to read closely] (2+4+{9-12}) = 15-18
11. Sex and diversity, sex versus gender, and sexed bodies: Excerpts from Evolution's Rainbow:
diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people (Joan Roughgarden) 147-155 (9)
12. Animal trans (Myra J. Hird) 156-167 (12)
13. Animals without genitals: race and transsubstantiation (Mel Y. Chen) 168-177 (10)
14. Lessons from a starfish (Eva Hayward) 178-188 (11)
15. Interdependent ecological transsex: notes on re/production, "transgender" fish, and the
management of populations, species, and resources (Bailey Kier) 189-198 (11)

Week 7
5/12 Tuesday TSR, vol. 2, parts 4-5 [source analysis/book review due]
{24-27}+{21-25} = 45-52pp
IV. Transfeminisms 199-200 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 18, select one more to read] (2+3+8+{11-14}) = 24-27
16. Feminist solidarity after queer theory: the case of transgender (Cressida Heyes) 201-213 (13)
17. Inclusive pedagogy in the women's studies classroom: teaching the Kimberly Nixon case
(Viviane K. Namaste in collaboration with Georgia Sitara) 213-225 (13)
*18. Skirt chasers: Why the media depicts the trans revolution in lipstick and heels (Julia Serano)
226-233 (8)
19. The education of little cis: Cisgender and the discipline of opposing bodies (A. Finn Enke)
234-247 (14)
20. Our bodies are not ourselves: Tranny guys and the racialized class politics of incoherence
(Bobby Jean Noble) 248-258 (11)
V. Cross talk: contention and complexity in trans-discourses 259-260 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 21, select one other to read] (2+3+5+{11-15}) = 21-25
*21. Body shame, body pride: Lessons from the disability rights movement (Eli Clare) 261-265
(5)
22. The pharmaco-pornographic regime: sex, gender, and subjectivity in the age of punk
capitalism (Beatriz Preciado) 266-277 (12)
23. Evil deceivers and make-believers: on transphobic violence and the politics of illusion (Talia
Mae Bettcher) 278-290 (13)
24. "Still at the back of the bus": Sylvia Rivera's struggle (Jessi Gan) 291-301 (11)
25. Transgender subjectivity and the logic of sexual difference (Shanna T. Carlson) 302-316 (15)
5/14 Thursday TSR, vol. 2, parts 6-7
{34-40}+{28-37} = 61-77pp
VI. Timely matters: Temporality and Trans-historicity 317-318 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 28, select one more article to read] (2+3+14+{15-21}) = 34-40
26. Towards a transgender archaeology: A queer rampage through prehistory (Mary Weismantel)
319-334 (16)
27. Before the tribade: Medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure (Karma Lochrie)
335-349 (15)
*28. Extermination of the Joyas: gendercide in Spanish California (Deborah A. Miranda) 350-
363 (14)
29. Before transgender: Transvestia's spectrum of gender variance, 1960-1980 (Robert Hill) 364-
379 (16)
30. Reading Transsexuality in "gay" Tehran (around 1979) (Afsaneh Najmabadi) 380-400 (21)
VII. Being there: The (im)material locations of trans-phenomena 401-402 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 31, select one more article read] (2+3+15+{8-17}) = 28-37
*31. Between surveillance and liberation: The lives of cross-dressed male sex workers in early
postwar Japan (Todd A. Henry) 403-417 (15)
32. An ethics of transsexual difference: Luce Irigaray and the place of sexual undecidability
(Gayle Salamon) 418-425 (8)
33. Touching gender: abjection and the hygienic imagination (Sheila Cavanagh) 426-442 (17)
34. Perverse citizenship: divas, marginality, and participation in "Loca-lization" (Marcia Ochoa)
443-456 (14)
35. Thinking figurations otherwise: reframing dominant knowledges of sex and gender variance
in Latin America (Vek Lewis) 457-470 (14)

Week 8
5/19 Tuesday TSR, vol. 2, parts 8-10
{29-35}+{27-31}+{22-31} = 79-97pp
VIII. Going somewhere: transgender movement(s) 471-472 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 40, select one more article to read] (2+3+14+{10-16}) = 29-35
36. Transgender without organs? Mobilizing a geo-affective theory of gender modification
(Lucas Cassidy Crawford) 473-482 (10)
37. Longevity and limits in Rae Bourbon's Life in Motion (Don Romesburg) 483-495 (13)
38. The romance of the amazing scalpel: "race," labor, and affect in Thai gender reassignment
climics (Aren Z. Aizura) 496-511 (16)
39. Trans/scriptions: homing desires, (trans)sexual citizenship and racialized bodies (Nael Banji)
512-526 (15)
*40. Transportation: translating Filipino and Filipino America tomboy masculinities through
global migration and seafaring (Kale Bantigue Fajardo) 527-540 (14)
IX. Biopolitics and the administration of trans-embodiment(s) 541-542 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 42, select one more article to read] (2+3+11+{11-15}) = 27-31
41. Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy): The transsexual whiteness of Christine Jorgensen
in the (post)colonial Philippines (Susan Stryker) 543-553 (11)
*42. Electric brilliancy: cross-dressing law and freak show displays in nineteenth-century San
Francisco (Clare Sears) 554-564 (11)
43. Shuttling between bodies and borders: Iranian transsexual refugees and the politics of rightful
killing (Sima Shakhsari) 565-579 (15)
44. Silhouettes of defiance: memorializing historical sites of queer and transgender resistence in
an age of neoliberal inclusivity (Che Gossett) 580-590 (11)
45. Neutering the transgendered: human rights and Japan's law no. 111 (Laura H. Norton) 591-
604 (14)
X. Trans-oriented practices, policies, and social change 605-606 (2)
[read all abstracts, read 49, select one more article to read] (2+3+10+{7-16}) = 22-31
46. "We won't know who you are": contesting sex designations in New York City birth
certificates (Paisley Currah and Lisa Jean Moore) 607-622 (16)
47. Reinscribing normality?: the law and politics of transgender marriage (Ruthann Robson)
623-629 (7)
48. Performance as intravention: ballroom culture and the politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit
(Marlon M. Bailey) 630-643 (14)
*49. Transgender as mental illness: nosology, social justice, and the tarnished Golden Mean (R.
Nick Gordon) 644-653 (10)
50. Building an abolitionist trans and queer movement with everything we've got (Morgan
Bassichis, Alexander Lee, and Dean Spade) 653-667 (15)

5/21 Thursday Black on Both Sides

[skim all, read introduction and 4 closely] (16+37) = 56pp plus skimming
*Introduction 1-16 (16)
1. Anatomically speaking: ungendered flesh and the science of sex 17-53 (37)
2. Trans Capable: fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being 55-97 (43)
3. Reading the "trans-" in transaltantic literature: on the "female" within Three Negro Classics
101-136 (36)
*4. A nightmarish silhouette: racialization and the long exposure of transition 139-175 (37)
5. DeVine's cut: public memory and the politics of martyrdom 177-198 (22)

Prof Leah DeVun guest lecture "Mapping the Borders of Sex in the Middle Ages"
(5/21/20 4:30pm in 200-307)

Week 9
5/26 Tuesday Professing Selves
[read introduction, 2, and 8 closely, skim all] (15+37+28)+ 80pp plus skimming
*Introduction 1-14 (15)
1. Entering the scene 15-37 (23)
*2. "Before" Transsexuality 38-74 (37)
3. Murderous passions, deviant insanities 75-119 (45)
4. "Around" 1979: Gay Tehran? 120-162 (43)
5. Verdicts of science, rulings of faith 163-201 (39)
6. Changing the terms: playing "Snakes and Ladders" with the state 202-230 (29)
7. Living patterns, narrative styles 231-274 (44)
*8. Professing selves: sexual/gender proficiencies 275-302 (28)

5/28 Thursday Journal of Women's History (Winter, 2016) Book Forum on Professing Selves
[read pages 154-185] 32pp
Introduction (Leisa D. Meyer) 154-157 (4)
The axiom of sex (Howard Chiang) 158-163 (6)
The contingent state of transsexuality in contemporary Iran (Gayatri Reddy) 164-167 (4)
What does it mean to be transsexual, "really"? (Elizabeth Reis) 168-173 (6)
From the depths of the self to conduct in the world (Sahar Sadjadi) 174-178 (5)
Transsexuality and biopolitics in Iran (Susan Stryker) 179-182 (4)
Response (Afsaneh Najmabadi) 183-185 (3)

Week 10 final paper rough drafts

6/2 Tuesday discussion of rough drafts

6/9 final paper due