Paisley Currah
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paisley Currah is political scientist and author, known for his work on the transgender rights movement. His book, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity examines the politics of sex classification in the United States. He is a professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was born in Ontario, Canada, received a B.A. from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario and an M.A and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He lives in Brooklyn.
Paisley Currah's Published Works
Published Works
- Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender? (2008) (218)
- “We Won't Know Who You Are”: Contesting Sex Designations in New York City Birth Certificates (2008) (68)
- Securitizing Gender: Identity, Biometrics, and Transgender Bodies at the Airport (2011) (66)
- Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations (2013) (49)
- Expecting Bodies: The Pregnant Man and Transgender Exclusion from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (2008) (40)
- Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle to Achieve Judicial and Legislative Equality for Transgender People (2000) (32)
- The Transgender Rights Imaginary (2009) (28)
- Stepping back, looking outward: Situating transgender activism and transgender studies — Kris Hayashi, Matt Richardson, and Susan Stryker frame the movement (2008) (23)
- Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge (2011) (21)
- General Editors’ Introduction (2014) (17)
- Homonationalism, State Rationalities, and Sex Contradictions (2013) (16)
- Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens (2015) (16)
- Introduction to special issue (2007) (16)
- The state we’re in: Locations of coercion and resistance in trans policy, part 2 (2008) (12)
- Defending Genders: Sex and Gender Non-Conformity in the Civil Rights Strategies of Sexual Minorities (1997) (12)
- Feminism and Political Economy: Women's Work, Women's Struggles, Heather Jon Maroney and Meg Luxton, eds. (1989) (6)
- General Editor's Introduction (2016) (6)
- General Editors' Introduction (2015) (6)
- Sex Is as Sex Does (2022) (4)
- Transgender Rights Without a Theory of Gender (2017) (4)
- QUEER THEORY, LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS, AND TRANSSEXUAL MARRIAGES (2021) (3)
- The State of LGBT/ Sexuality Studies in Political Science (2011) (3)
- Bringing Forth the Body (2011) (2)
- Making Transgender Count (2015) (1)
- Social Justice for Gender and Sexual Minorities: A Discussion with Paisley Currah and Aeyal Gross (2019) (0)
- Gender Theory and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Empowerment (1999) (0)
- Introduction to “Policies” (2015) (0)
- Politics, Practices, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights (2020) (0)
- Free to Be She (2003) (0)
- Speech and Political Practice: Recovering the Place of Human Responsibility. By Jardine Murray. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 173p. $21.95 paper. (1999) (0)
- Sterile Futures: Naturalized Reproduction and the Pregnant Man (2011) (0)
- General Editors’ Introduction (2018) (0)
- Sex's Place, Gender's Time: Fixing Trans Bodies (2009) (0)
- To set transgender policy, look to the evidence (2022) (0)
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