Full Description
There is a growing recognition of the importance of transgender perspectives about the environment. Unlike more established approaches in the environmental humanities and queer studies, transecology is a nascent inquiry whose significance and scope are only just being articulated. Drawing upon the fields of gender studies and ecological studies, contributors to this volume engage major concepts widely used in both fields as they explore the role of identity, exclusion, connection, intimacy, and emplacement to understand our relationship to nature and environment.
The theorists and ideas examined across multiple chapters include Stacy Alaimo's notion of "trans-corporeality" as a "contact zone" between humans and the environment, Timothy Morton's concept of "mesh" to explore the interconnectedness of all beings, Susan Stryker's notion of trans identity as "ontologically inescapable," Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson's history of the development of queer rural spaces, Judith Butler's analysis of gender as "performative"—with those who are not "properly gendered" being seen as "abjects"—and Julia Serano's contrasting rejection of gender as performance.
Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature will be of great interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in transgender studies, gender studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction. "Transecology: (Re)Claiming the Natural, Belonging, Intimacy, and Impurity"
Chapter 1. 'The Bog is in Me': Transecology and The Danish Girl
Chapter 2. Coming Out, Camping Out: Theorizing Gender and Nature through Transparent
Chapter 3. Posthuman Ecological Intimacy, Waste, and the Trans Body in Nånting måste gå sönder (2014)
Chapter 4. A Journey Through Eco-apocalypse and Gender Transformations: New Perspectives on Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve
Chapter 5. Chinese Literature, Ecofeminism, and Transgender Studies
Chapter 6. Gendercrossing at the Frontier: Annemarie Schwarzenbach's Transgender Memoirs in the Alborz Mountains
Chapter 7. Transplacement: Nature and Place in Carter Sickels's 'Saving' and 'Bittersweet'
Chapter 8. Sexuate Ecologies and the Landmarking of Transgender Cultural Heritage
Chapter 9. Transgender: An Expanded View of the Ecological Self
Chapter 10. 'Good Animals': The Past, Present, and Futures of Trans Ecology
Afterword.
