Hi everyone: forgive the self promotion but I want to be sure folks know about
my new book. Many thanks, Bobby Noble


Sons of the Movement: FtMs Risking Incoherence on a Post-Queer Cultural
Landscape

Dr. J. Bobby Noble, PhD
Sexuality Studies Program
School of Women's Studies

Women’s Press: http://www.womenspress.ca/
ISBN: 0-88961-461-X
Price: Cdn $29.95 / US $24.95

Sons of the Movement documents the female-to-male (FtM) transition process from
an insider’s point of view, and details the limitations of both surgical
procedures and pronouns. J. Bobby Noble challenges both the expectations of
masculinity and white masculinity.  As a result, this text is equally invested
in creating both gender trouble and race trouble, calling for a new provocative
analysis of the field of gender studies. This is an accessible treatise arguing
that the relation among FtM transsexual masculinity, female masculinity, and
feminism is an underexplored site of politics in the field. While FtM
transsexuals have been viewed with some suspicion within feminist and lesbian
circles, Sons of the Movement argues that since FtMs have the potential to
offer a unique vantage point on both feminism and masculinity, FtM masculinity
instead should be rearticulated as an alternative and pro-feminist embodiment
of non-phallic masculinity.

 “Sons of the Movement is a groundbreaking study of immense proportions. The
book details not only the grassroots origins of some of the most challenging
aspects of contemporary transgender and transsexual politics and movements, but
it also raises very difficult and pertinent questions for social movements
and social justice, in particular those of feminist and lesbian politics. “

Rinaldo Walcott, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair, Social Justice and Cultural
Studies Program, OISE, University of Toronto

“Sons of the Movement is a beautiful, paradoxical articulation and realization
of a life and an analysis. The text brilliantly combines the author’s own trans
narrative, a cultural analysis of trans men, and a political rallying cry
against identity rigidity and territoriality.”

Maureen Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Director, Sexual Diversity Studies Program,
University College, University of Toronto.

J. Bobby Noble, PhD, is a Professor in the Sexuality Studies program, housed in
the School of Women’s Studies at York University. Professor Noble is the author
of  Masculinities Without Men? (University of British Columbia Press, 2003),
which was listed as a Choice Outstanding Title for 2004; and a co-editor of The
Drag King Anthology, a 2004 Lambda Literary Finalist (Harrington Press 2003).


-- 
Dr. J. Bobby Noble, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sexuality Studies Program: www.yorku.ca/wmst/sxst
School of Women's Studies
213 Winters College
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Canada