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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.

Table of Contents:

• Deceptive documents
• Flying under the radar
• Bathrooms, borders, and biometrics
• Sensitive information in the Manning case
• Conclusion: On endurance.

Author/Creator:

Beauchamp, Toby, 1977- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Going stealth: transgender politics and U.S. surveillance practices [by Beauchamp, T.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Going stealth [by Beauchamp, T.] (Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2019] — ISBN 9781478001225; LCCN 2018023454; OCLC Number 1041223159)

Subjects:

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

Electronic surveillance

Electronic surveillance — Social aspects

Sex differences

Gender nonconformity

Gender identity — Political aspects

Gender identity

Transphobia

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV7936.T4 B43 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781478002659 (electronic book)
1478002654 (electronic book)
9781478001225 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1478001224 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9781478001577 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1478001577 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 15184915

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018028966

OCLC Numbers:

1026199965