Transgender Marxism is the first volume of its kind, offering
a provocative and groundbreaking synthesis of transgender studies and
Marxist theory. Reflecting on the relations between gender and labor,
it shows how these linked phenomena structure antagonisms in
particular social and historical situations. While no one is spared
gendered conditioning, the contributors argue that transgender people
nonetheless face particular pressures, oppressions and state
persecution. The collection makes a particular contribution to
Marxist feminism and social reproduction theory, through both
personal and analytic examinations of the social activity demanded of
trans people around the world. Exploring trans lives and movements
through a Marxist lens, the book also assesses the particular
experience of surviving as trans in light of the totality of gendered
experience under capitalism. Twinning Marxism with other schools of
thought - including psychoanalysis, phenomenology and Butlerian
performativity - Transgender Marxism ultimately offers an
insight into transgender experience, and an exciting renewal of
Marxist theory itself.
