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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966631003321

Autore

Fischer Mia

Titolo

Terrorizing Gender : Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State / / Mia Fischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019]

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©[2019]

ISBN

9781496218520

1496218523

9781496218506

1496218507

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Expanding frontier: Interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality

Disciplina

306.76/8

Soggetti

Social media

Journalism - Political aspects - United States

Transgender people - Social aspects

Transgender people - United States

Journalism - Political aspects

Transgender people

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor -- 2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire -- 3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life -- 4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign -- 5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Using an interdisciplinary framework, Fischer connects media coverage with the state regulation of trans people to show how, despite some increase in positive depictions, negative representations of trans people



as deceptive, deviant, and threatening still permeate mass-mediated discourses used to justify, even normalize, state-sanctioned violence against gender non-conforming populations"--