Paisley Currah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1131935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paisley Currah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paisley |
| FAMILY NAME | Currah |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
General Editor's Introduction
Like any new transdisciplinary area, at the moment of trans studies emergence there were no conventions limiting what one could look at, no particular sets of methodological processes one must follow, no “proper objects” (Butler 1994). Before Sandy Stone launched the field with the appearance in 1991 of “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto,” the study of all things trans had pretty much been limited to pathologizing medical and p…
General Editor's Introduction
I n the last decade, movements for transgender equality appear to have advanced with astonishing speed, while other issues of concern to women’s movements have largely stalled, either making little progress (equal pay) or suffering real setbacks (abortion access). From policy reforms to public opinion trends, it seems that the situation has changed faster, and in a more positive direction, on issues characterized as “transgender rights” than it h…
Introduction to “Policies”
We are delighted to debut “Policies” in this issue of TSQ. This recurring section will feature work that details how change happens—or is prevented from happening—in the arenas of rules, regulations, and other technologies of governance. While the visibility of trans issues has never been greater, seemingly small-scale mechanisms and decisions at the micropolitical level of institutions and bureaucracies are often overlooked, although they can ha…
The State
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Corpus
The State of LGBT/ Sexuality Studies in Political Science
On July 2, 2010, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that reduced the act of soliciting a “crime against nature” for compensation from a felony to a misdemeanor. A felony conviction had meant a fine of up to $2,000, imprisonment for up to five years (“with or without hard labor”), or both. Because of the change in the crime's classification to a misdemeanor, those convicted of a first offense now face lesser penalties: a fine o…
Securitizing Gender
It is widely assumed that the more information surveillance apparatuses can collect about an individual, the less risk she poses. In this article, we examine how gender figures into and potentially disrupts the link between identity and security. Our analysis centers on one very particular event: the confusion that erupts at the airport when US Transportation Security Administration agents perceive a conflict between the gender marked on one's pa…
Stepping back, looking outward
The state we’re in
We Won't Know Who You Are”
This article examines shifts in the legal, medical, and common-sense logics governing the designation of sex on birth certificates issued by the City of New York between 1965 and 2006. In the initial iteration, the stabilization of legal sex categories was organized around the notion of “fraud”; in the most recent iteration, “permanence” became the measure of authenticity. We frame these legal constructions of sex with theories about the “natural…
Expecting Bodies
In April 2008, news about an Oregon man's impending parenthood spawned a media tsunami across the US and even internationally. The pregnant man was Thomas Beatie, a transgender man who had had top surgery and been on hormone therapy but had stopped taking testosterone in anticipation of getting pregnant. For trans people in the U.S., much of Beatie's narrative resonated with their own experience. While it is rare, but not unheard of in trans comm…
Introduction
Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender? Susan Stryker (bio), Paisley Currah (bio), and Lisa Jean Moore (bio) The title that appears on the cover of this journal is Trans-, not Trans, and not Transgender. A little hyphen is perhaps too flimsy a thing to carry as much conceptual freight as we intend for it bear, but we think the hyphen matters a great deal, precisely because it marks the difference between the implied nominalism of "trans" and…
Introduction to special issue
Introduction
Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender? Susan Stryker (bio), Paisley Currah (bio), and Lisa Jean Moore (bio) The title that appears on the cover of this journal is Trans-, not Trans, and not Transgender. A little hyphen is perhaps too flimsy a thing to carry as much conceptual freight as we intend for it bear, but we think the hyphen matters a great deal, precisely because it marks the difference between the implied nominalism of "trans" and…
We Won't Know Who You Are”
This article examines shifts in the legal, medical, and common-sense logics governing the designation of sex on birth certificates issued by the City of New York between 1965 and 2006. In the initial iteration, the stabilization of legal sex categories was organized around the notion of “fraud”; in the most recent iteration, “permanence” became the measure of authenticity. We frame these legal constructions of sex with theories about the “natural…
Securitizing Gender
It is widely assumed that the more information surveillance apparatuses can collect about an individual, the less risk she poses. In this article, we examine how gender figures into and potentially disrupts the link between identity and security. Our analysis centers on one very particular event: the confusion that erupts at the airport when US Transportation Security Administration agents perceive a conflict between the gender marked on one's pa…
Expecting Bodies
In April 2008, news about an Oregon man's impending parenthood spawned a media tsunami across the US and even internationally. The pregnant man was Thomas Beatie, a transgender man who had had top surgery and been on hormone therapy but had stopped taking testosterone in anticipation of getting pregnant. For trans people in the U.S., much of Beatie's narrative resonated with their own experience. While it is rare, but not unheard of in trans comm…
Introduction to special issue
The State
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
General Editor's Introduction
I n the last decade, movements for transgender equality appear to have advanced with astonishing speed, while other issues of concern to women’s movements have largely stalled, either making little progress (equal pay) or suffering real setbacks (abortion access). From policy reforms to public opinion trends, it seems that the situation has changed faster, and in a more positive direction, on issues characterized as “transgender rights” than it h…
The State of LGBT/ Sexuality Studies in Political Science
On July 2, 2010, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that reduced the act of soliciting a “crime against nature” for compensation from a felony to a misdemeanor. A felony conviction had meant a fine of up to $2,000, imprisonment for up to five years (“with or without hard labor”), or both. Because of the change in the crime's classification to a misdemeanor, those convicted of a first offense now face lesser penalties: a fine o…
Stepping back, looking outward
The state we’re in
Introduction to special issue
Stepping back, looking outward
The state we’re in
We Won't Know Who You Are”
This article examines shifts in the legal, medical, and common-sense logics governing the designation of sex on birth certificates issued by the City of New York between 1965 and 2006. In the initial iteration, the stabilization of legal sex categories was organized around the notion of “fraud”; in the most recent iteration, “permanence” became the measure of authenticity. We frame these legal constructions of sex with theories about the “natural…
Expecting Bodies
In April 2008, news about an Oregon man's impending parenthood spawned a media tsunami across the US and even internationally. The pregnant man was Thomas Beatie, a transgender man who had had top surgery and been on hormone therapy but had stopped taking testosterone in anticipation of getting pregnant. For trans people in the U.S., much of Beatie's narrative resonated with their own experience. While it is rare, but not unheard of in trans comm…
Introduction
Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender? Susan Stryker (bio), Paisley Currah (bio), and Lisa Jean Moore (bio) The title that appears on the cover of this journal is Trans-, not Trans, and not Transgender. A little hyphen is perhaps too flimsy a thing to carry as much conceptual freight as we intend for it bear, but we think the hyphen matters a great deal, precisely because it marks the difference between the implied nominalism of "trans" and…
Corpus
The State of LGBT/ Sexuality Studies in Political Science
On July 2, 2010, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that reduced the act of soliciting a “crime against nature” for compensation from a felony to a misdemeanor. A felony conviction had meant a fine of up to $2,000, imprisonment for up to five years (“with or without hard labor”), or both. Because of the change in the crime's classification to a misdemeanor, those convicted of a first offense now face lesser penalties: a fine o…
Securitizing Gender
It is widely assumed that the more information surveillance apparatuses can collect about an individual, the less risk she poses. In this article, we examine how gender figures into and potentially disrupts the link between identity and security. Our analysis centers on one very particular event: the confusion that erupts at the airport when US Transportation Security Administration agents perceive a conflict between the gender marked on one's pa…
The State
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Introduction to “Policies”
We are delighted to debut “Policies” in this issue of TSQ. This recurring section will feature work that details how change happens—or is prevented from happening—in the arenas of rules, regulations, and other technologies of governance. While the visibility of trans issues has never been greater, seemingly small-scale mechanisms and decisions at the micropolitical level of institutions and bureaucracies are often overlooked, although they can ha…
General Editor's Introduction
I n the last decade, movements for transgender equality appear to have advanced with astonishing speed, while other issues of concern to women’s movements have largely stalled, either making little progress (equal pay) or suffering real setbacks (abortion access). From policy reforms to public opinion trends, it seems that the situation has changed faster, and in a more positive direction, on issues characterized as “transgender rights” than it h…
General Editor's Introduction
Like any new transdisciplinary area, at the moment of trans studies emergence there were no conventions limiting what one could look at, no particular sets of methodological processes one must follow, no “proper objects” (Butler 1994). Before Sandy Stone launched the field with the appearance in 1991 of “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto,” the study of all things trans had pretty much been limited to pathologizing medical and p…
Sociology (8 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Transgender (5 works) · Law (4 works)