...Damien Pascal Domenack Abstract In The Soul of the Stranger , Joy Ladin centers nonbinary gender expression in the first chapter of Genesis. Ladin articulates the opportunity for nonbinary gender categories by moving beyond the creation of the binary and focusing on Adam (humanity), who represents...

... within and beyond the academy. Starting with Gender in International Higher Education Research is organized roughly by collectives of associations, but these collectivities are not discrete. Rather, as the editors note, “each chapter reaches into other chapters, whether by conceptual...

...T.J. Jourian Trans People in Higher Education meets this demand as an edited volume comprising sixteen chapters covering a variety of experiential, institutional, conceptual, and reflective revelations of transness. Although the majority of the chapters focus on trans students, they begin...

..., they name critical interventions that reveal the historicity, normalization, and ideological inflections of identity categories, as well as the possibilities for transformation that may emerge from them. An effective illustration of such critical interventions is chapter 16 by Chávez and Hana Masri, which...

... reassignment as being routed through an “elsewhere” space on a journey that is “always already imbricated within and facilitated by formations of political economy and post- and neocolonialisms” (4). Mobile Subjects includes an introduction and five chapters organized into two parts. Part 1 focuses...

... sections: “Conquest of the Body” and “Conquest of the Mind.” The first section consists of five chapters, which take the reader from Dillon/Jivaka's birth to his role in World War II. Chapter 1, “Birth and Origins,” opens with the sentence, “I was born on May 1, 1915, in a nursing home in Ladbroke Grove...

... as a third gender in the Middle Ages. However, as far as I am aware the present volume is the first book-length trans and genderqueer inquiry into medieval culture, in some instances carefully nuancing existent scholarship on medieval gender from these perspectives. For example, in the chapter on “Gender...

... their origins. In chapter two, the first analysis chapter, interviewees recount several of these encounters where their multiracial bodies were subject to this racializing gaze. The interviewees had a variety of methods for responding to or subverting these instances of what Frantz Fanon called “dissection...

... the first chapter of Genesis, other than the gendered verbs and pronouns required by biblical Hebrew, gender isn't there. God creates light and dark, day and night, sky and earth, sun and moon, seas and stars, animals and plants, without referring to maleness or femaleness. That's why it's so striking when...

... be applied to trans, gay, lesbian (and other queer) ways of living. In chapter 6, Malatino names the preoperative/postoperative and the pretransition/posttransition binaries as examples for how trans lives and trans studies might be affected by a new focus on becoming instead of being. If the sexed body...

...., genealogically, inter-sectionally, trans-nationally) about intersex can yield a valuable reworking of many of the core terms within Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). In their first chapter, “‘An Unnamed Blank That Craved a Name’: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender,” Rubin establishes the book's...

... of black flesh as fungible helps Snorton reveal that racial capitalism made blackness into a tool within the project of apprehending/making “real” categories of gender. Within this framework, Snorton's book unfolds chronologically, with chapters on nineteenth-century gynecology, slave fugitivity, early...

.... The fashions of nightlife patrons teach us how to adorn our bodies and how to command attention. Thus, nightlife is not only a space to dance, to sweat, to shade, to fuck, and to kiki , but also to learn. Nightlife's aesthetic and political education unfolds across each of the book's six main chapters...

... University. The chapters are drawn from papers presented in the genders and sexualities stream of the Tenth International Conference of Thai Studies held in Bangkok in 2008. Contributors to the volume hail from ten countries (only one chapter is by scholars based in Thailand), with significant representation...

... bodies. Each chapter centers on a particular sin by engaging micro- or macroanalyses of cases and studying the different circumstances by which each sin has its own archiving procedure. For instance, in a study of priests soliciting penitents from and around the confessional, Tortorici argues...

... Kent Monkman's paintings, for instance, effectively (if unexpectedly) recuperates Stravinsky and Nijinsky's The Rite of Spring within the scope of contemporary decolonial studies (“the text becomes bewildering to its intended viewers and useful to its decolonizing heirs,” 66). Chapter 3...

... that are crucial for this field of study. The thirteen chapters here are organized in five sections. The first section, “Gender Boundaries within Educational Spaces,” discusses how to create inclusive higher education environments for transgender people. This section interlocks academia and social policy...

... than the various strands of thought that one can track (and teach) across the volume's chapters. Alongside authors who directly take up the twinned trends of trans visibility and antitrans violence, others position the internet as a central site of trans and gender-nonconforming life-making. While...

... is organized to allow each chapter to build on the work of previous chapters while focusing on a specific potential benefit of relational gender in each: empathy, power, desire, and collaboration. Chess further anchors each chapter around three to four primary texts such as plays, poems, broadside ballads...

... a more accurate picture of the terrain of Indian performing arts. (27) In the service of these aims, Morcom gives us chapters that detail the historical development of discourses of exclusion of traditional performers. Such dancers were first excluded from the “respectable” performing arts since...