Aren Z. Aizura is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader 2.

"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - N. B. Rosenthal (Choice) "Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place." - Emmanuel David (TSQ) "[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today." - Muriel Vernon (Medical Anthropology Quarterly) "Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study." - Jacob Barry (Journal of Critical Race Inquiry) “Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...."- Lars Olav Aaberg (newbooks.asia) “... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.” - K.S. Shindle (Catalyst) “Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....” - Isaac Gagné (American Ethnologist)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Provincializing Trans  1Part I1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives  292. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel  593. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot  03Part IIInterlude  1354. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self  1375. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics  174Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding  207Notes  221Bibliography  245Index  269

Aren Z. Aizura is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader 2.

"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - N. B. Rosenthal (Choice) "Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place." - Emmanuel David (TSQ) "[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today." - Muriel Vernon (Medical Anthropology Quarterly) "Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study." - Jacob Barry (Journal of Critical Race Inquiry) “Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...."- Lars Olav Aaberg (newbooks.asia) “... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.” - K.S. Shindle (Catalyst) “Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....” - Isaac Gagné (American Ethnologist)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Provincializing Trans  1Part I1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives  292. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel  593. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot  03Part IIInterlude  1354. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self  1375. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics  174Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding  207Notes  221Bibliography  245Index  269

Aren Z. Aizura is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader 2.

"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - N. B. Rosenthal (Choice) "Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place." - Emmanuel David (TSQ) "[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today." - Muriel Vernon (Medical Anthropology Quarterly) "Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study." - Jacob Barry (Journal of Critical Race Inquiry) “Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...."- Lars Olav Aaberg (newbooks.asia) “... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.” - K.S. Shindle (Catalyst) “Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....” - Isaac Gagné (American Ethnologist)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Provincializing Trans  1Part I1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives  292. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel  593. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot  03Part IIInterlude  1354. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self  1375. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics  174Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding  207Notes  221Bibliography  245Index  269