Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Part I: Imagining Transgender
6. Introduction 3
7. 1. Imagining Transgender 29
8. Part II: Making Community, Conceiving Identity
9. Introduction to Part II: Reframing Community and Identity 68
10. 2. Making Community 71
11. 3. ‘‘I Know What I Am’’: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity 105
12. Part III: Emerging Fields
13. Introduction to Part III: The Transexual, the Anthropologist, and the Rabbi 140
14. 4. The Making of a Field: Anthropology and Transgender Studies 143
15. 5. The Logic of Inclusion: Transgender Activism 173
16. 6. The Calculus of Pain: Violence, Narrative, and the Self 204
17. Conclusion: Making Ethnography 231
18. Notes 257
19. Works Cited 277
20. Index 299