Transgender Experience

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at the University Paris 13 Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2013); Between Rites and Rights (2007); The African Palimpsest (2007); and Tempests after Shakespeare (2002). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text.David Coad is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Valenciennes, France. He is the author of Prophète dans le désert: Essais sur Patrick White (1997), Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities (2002) and The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality, and Sport (2008).

• Introduction Chantal Zabus and David Coad Part I: Place 1. On the History of Transsexuals in France Maxime Foerster 2. Marie, because it is beautiful Marie-Pierre Pruvot (Bambi) 3. My Sex is in My Head Ludwig Trovato Part II: Ethnicity 4. Studs, Stems, and Fishy Boys: Adolescent Latino Gender Variance and the Slippery Diagnosis of Transsexuality Vernon Rosario 5. Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy): The Transsexual Whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the (Post)colonial Philippines Susan Stryker Part III: Visibility 6. Claiming Space: Transgender Visibility in the Arts Eveline Kilian 7. Transsexual Experience: Photography, Gender, and the Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes Sara Davidmann 8. The Politics of Home in Becoming Julia: Transsexual Experience in Australia David Coad 9. Trans Autobiographies as Performative Utterances John C. Hawley 10. Trans Africa: Between Transgendered ‘Possession’ and Transsexuality in South African Experiential Narratives Chantal Zabus

"This lively addition to trans studies crosses diverse geographical and gender boundaries, forging important connections between personal narratives and theoretical claims." -Patricia Elliot, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada