Title Going stealth : transgender politics and U.S. surveillance practices / Toby Beauchamp

Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations Contents Deceptive documents -- Flying under the radar -- Bathrooms, borders, and biometrics -- Sensitive information in the Manning case -- Conclusion: On endurance Summary In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threats based on racial, gender, national, and ableist categories of difference. Positioning surveillance as central to our understanding of transgender politics, Beauchamp examines a range of issues, from bathroom bills and TSA screening practices to Chelsea Manning's trial, to show how security practices extend into the everyday aspects of our gendered lives. He brings the fields of disability, science and technology, and surveillance studies into conversation with transgender studies to show how the scrutinizing of gender nonconformity is motivated less by explicit transgender identities than by the perceived threat that gender nonconformity poses to the U.S. racial and security state. Beauchamp uses instances of gender surveillance to demonstrate how disciplinary power attempts to produce conformist citizens and regulate difference through discourses of security. At the same time, he contends that greater visibility and recognition for gender nonconformity, while sometimes beneficial, might actually enable the surveillance state to more effectively track, measure, and control trans bodies and identities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Electronic surveillance -- Political aspects -- United States Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- United States Electronic surveillance -- Sex differences -- United States Gender nonconformity -- Political aspects -- United States Gender identity -- Political aspects -- United States Transphobia -- United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies Electronic surveillance -- Political aspects Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects Gender identity -- Political aspects Transphobia United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2018028966 ISBN 9781478002659 1478002654

Other Titles Transgender politics and United States surveillance practices

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