The Transgender Studies Reader 2

Chapter 11: Selections from Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People - Joan Roughgarden

Further Reading

Haraway, D. (2003). The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.

Links

Wired UK. (15 Oct 2012). Transgendered Bellbird Found in New Zealand.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/transgendered-bellbird/

Chapter 12: Animal Transsex - Myra Hird

Further Reading

Asberg, C. (2011). Sexual Difference, Gender, and (Microscopic) Animals: A Commentary on Ebeling's Sexing the Rotifer. Society and Animals, 19(3), 316–322.

Prashad, A. (2012). Beyond Analytical Dichotomies. Human Relations, 65(5), 567–595.

Chapter 13: Animals Without Genitals: Race and Transsubstantiation - Mel Chen

Further Reading

Deckha, M. (2012). Toward a Postcolonial, Posthumanist Feminist Theory: Centralizing Race and Culture in Feminist Work on Nonhuman Animals [Special Issue]. Hypatia, 27(3), 527–545.

Dell'Aversano, C. (2010). The Love Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken: Queering the Human–Animal Bond. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 8(1/2), 73–125.

Pedersen, H. (2011). Release the Moths: Critical Animal Studies and the Posthumanist Impulse. Culture, Theory, and Critique, 52(1), 65–81.

Chapter 14: Lessons from a Starfish - Eva Hayward

Further Reading

Alaimo, S. (2010). Bodily Matters: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Hayward, E. (2008). More Lessons from a Starfish: Prefixial Flesh and Transspeciated Selves. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 36(3/4), 64–85.

Chapter 15: Interdependent Ecological Transsex: Notes on Re/Production, “Transgender” Fish, and the Management of Populations, Species, and Resources - Bailey Keir

Further Reading

Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press.

Gosine, A. (2010). Non-white Reproduction and Same-Sex Eroticism: Queer Acts against Nature. In C. Mortimer-Sandilands and B. Erickson (Eds.), Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 149–172.

Hayward, E. (2005). The Nature–Culture Divide: Or Transdisciplining Diversity. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 11(2), 322–324.

Roberts, D. E. (1997). Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books.

Zuk, M. (2003). Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Links

James Owens. Interspecies Sex: Exolutions Hidden Secret. National Geographic. March 14, 2007.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070314-hybrids.html
This National Geographic article points to recent research indicating that interspecies mating in animals is much more common that previously thought, and may in fact produce hybridization that increases genetic diversity in order to adapt to changing environments.

Hormone-Mimicking Chemicals Cause Inter-Species Mating: Bisphenol A Breaks Down Fish Species Barriers. Science Daily. July 11, 2012. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711074232.htm
This Science Daily article summarizes how the endocrine disrupting chemical known as BPA causes fish engage in interspecies mating with “invasive” species which according to researchers can cause major ecological consequences  promoting the “invader”. However, what is not said is that once two different species interbreed, it is not the same species (according to human classificatory infrastructures) as the original “invader.”

PBS’s Poisoned Waters documentary. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/etc/synopsis.html
This documentary illustrates the politics and human infrastructure that has altered the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound with a focus on endocrine-disrupting chemicals and the discourses of ecocatastrophe that surround it.

Org. Miffed Over School’s Transgender Fish Lessons.
http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/05/24/org-miffed-over-schools-transgender-fish-lessons
This Advocate article documents how teaching elementary students about animal and gender diversity in an Oakland was met by controversy and gained national media attention.

National Security Study Memorandum: NSSM 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (The Kissinger Report) December 10, 1974.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/waronfamily/nssm200/nssm200.pdf
This declassified document illustrates worldwide population control tactics by the U.S. government during the 1970s.