Trans in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion

Nicolazzo, Z./ Quaye, Stephen John (Afterword)/ Renn, Kristen A. (Foreward By)

ISBN 10: 1620364557 / ISBN 13: 9781620364550

Published by Stylus Pub Llc, 2016

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208 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trans in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620364557
• ISBN 13: 9781620364550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.79 kilograms

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Synopsis

WINNER of 2017 AERA DIVISION J OUTSTANDING PUBLICATION AWARD

CHOICE 2017 Outstanding Academic Title

This is both a personal book that offers an account of the author’s own trans* identity and a deeply engaged study of trans* collegians that reveals the complexities of trans* identities, and how these students navigate the trans* oppression present throughout society and their institutions, create community and resilience, and establish meaning and control in a world that assumes binary genders.

This book is addressed as much to trans* students themselves – offering them a frame to understand the genders that mark them as different and to address the feelings brought on by the weight of that difference – as it is to faculty, student affairs professionals, and college administrators, opening up the implications for the classroom and the wider campus.

This book not only remedies the paucity of literature on trans* college students, but does so from a perspective of resiliency and agency. Rather than situating trans* students as problems requiring accommodation, this book problematizes the college environment and frames trans* students as resilient individuals capable of participating in supportive communities and kinship networks, and of developing strategies to promote their own success.

Z Nicolazzo provides the reader with a nuanced and illuminating review of the literature on gender and sexuality that sheds light on the multiplicity of potential expressions and outward representations of trans* identity as a prelude to the ethnography ze conducted with nine trans* collegians that richly documents their interactions with, and responses to, environments ranging from the unwittingly offensive to explicitly antagonistic.

The book concludes by giving space to the study’s participants to themselves share what they want college faculty, staff, and students to know about their lived experiences. Two appendices respectively provide a glossary of vocabulary and terms to address commonly asked questions, and a description of the study design, offered as guide for others considering working alongside marginalized population in a manner that foregrounds ethics, care, and reciprocity.

About the Author

Dr.Z Nicolazzo is an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education in theCenter for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Z’sresearch explores how discourses of gender pervade and mediate collegeenvironments, with particular attention paid to trans people. Additionally, herlatest scholarship focuses on how trans people cultivate future possible selvesthrough digital/online platforms, as well as how higher education invests inthe logics of transmisogyny. Her first book, Trans* in college: Transgenderstudents’ strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional politicsof inclusion, was awarded the 2017 American Educational ResearchAssociation Division J Publication of the Year Award, and was published byStylus in 2017.