Trans* in college : transgender students' strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional politics of inclusion / Z. Nicolazzo ; foreword by Kristen A. Renn ; afterword by Stephen John Quaye.

  • Nicolazzo, Z.
Date:
2017
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Transgender in college

Description

"This is both a personal book that offers an account of the author's own trans* identity and a deeply engaged study of trans* collegians that reveals the complexities of trans* identities, and how these students navigate the trans* oppression present throughout society and their institutions, create community and resilience, and establish meaning and control in a world that assumes binary genders. This book is addressed as much to trans* students themselves -- offering them a frame to understand the genders that mark them as different and to address the feelings brought on by the weight of that difference -- as it is to faculty, student affairs professionals, and college administrators, opening up the implications for the classroom and the wider campus. This book not only remedies the paucity of literature on trans* college students, but does so from a perspective of resiliency and agency. Rather than situating trans* students as problems requiring accommodation, this book problematizes the college environment and frames trans* students as resilient individuals capable of participating in supportive communities and kinship networks, and of developing strategies to promote their own success." --Amazon.

Publication/Creation

Sterling, Virginia : Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2017.

Physical description

xiv, 208 pages : black and white illustration ; 23 cm

Edition

First edition.

Contents

Foreword / Kristen A. Renn -- Situating the study ; Interlude : Introducing my community -- A review of trans*-related research ; Interlude : Bruised by data -- Gender binary discourse -- Compulsory heterogenderism -- Resilience as a verb -- The (tiring) labor of practicing trans*genders -- A constellation of kinship networks ; Interlude : An ending full of beginnings -- Implications -- Epilogue -- Afterword / Stephen John Quaye.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

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Where to find it

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    History of Medicine
    TW /NIC
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781620364550
  • 1620364557
  • 9781620364567
  • 1620364565