[Commlist] New Book: Terrorizing Gender - Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State

Book Announcement: /Terrorizing Gender - Transgender Visibility and the 
Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State/


I’m delighted to announce that /Terrorizing Gender: Transgender 
Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State 
/(University of Nebraska Press) is now officially available! You can 
order directly at the press’s website (and get 40% off with the discount 
code: 6AS19): 
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9781496206749/or 
find it another bookseller of your choice.

_About /Terrorizing Gender/: _

The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, 
exemplified by /Time/ magazine’s declaration that 2014 marked a 
“transgender tipping point,” was widely believed to signal a civil 
rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. In 
/Terrorizing Gender/ Mia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress, 
bringing together transgender, queer, critical race, legal, 
surveillance, and media studies to analyze the cases of Chelsea Manning, 
CeCe McDonald, and Monica Jones. Tracing how media and state actors 
collude in the violent disciplining of these trans women, Fischer 
exposes the traps of visibility by illustrating that dominant 
representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening 
are integral to justifying, normalizing, and reinforcing the 
state-sanctioned violence enacted against them. The heightened 
visibility of transgender people, Fischer argues, has actually 
occasioned a conservative backlash characterized by the increased 
surveillance of trans people by the security state, evident in debates 
over bathroom access laws, the trans military ban, and the rescission of 
federal protections for transgender students and workers. /Terrorizing 
Gender/ concludes that the current moment of trans visibility 
constitutes a contingent cultural and national belonging, given the 
gendered and racialized violence that the state continues to enact 
against trans communities, particularly those of color.

_Praise:_

  “Mia Fischer’s /Terrorizing Gender /valuably unsettles normative 
assumptions and reveals precarious implications of the vaunted 
transgender ‘tipping point.’. . . /Terrorizing Gender/’s compelling 
necropolitical critique floodlights the conditions and obfuscations of 
trans precarity, and its closing call to embody Tourmaline’s politics of 
‘nobodiness’ offers a promising glimpse of visibility’s queer 
future.”—Charles E. Morris III, professor in the Department of 
Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and coeditor 
of /QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking/

“/Terrorizing Gender/ is an incendiary contribution to media studies and 
transgender studies. With brilliant rigor, Fischer shows how recent U.S. 
transgender visibility has occasioned a revival of narratives presenting 
trans people as deviant and threatening. . . . The result, as Fischer 
masterfully illustrates, is an extremely limited public trans 
visibility, premised on replicating white supremacy and violent policing 
of those trans people who do not or will not comply with state 
regulation. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in 
transgender politics and media.”—Aren Z. Aizura, assistant professor of 
gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota, and 
author of /Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender 
Reassignment/

“Methodologically innovative and theoretically sophisticated, this brave 
book exposes how transgender people in the United States are 
increasingly subject to state-sanctioned violence and surveillance 
practices. . . . This book will occupy a central place on my shelf as it 
bridges the fields of surveillance, trans, and media studies, and 
critical race and feminist theory. I can’t wait to teach it.”—Shoshana 
Magnet, associate professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender 
Studies, University of Ottawa

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