Paisley Currah
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Recent and forthcoming publications

Paisley Currah and Dean Spade, "The State We're In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy."  Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC  Vol. 4. No. 4 (December 2007) and Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2008). Read the introduction here.  The table of contents and some articles are here.

Trans-, a special double issue of Women's Studies Quarterly (Fall/Winter 2008). Co-edited by Paisley Currah, Lisa Jean Moore, and Susan Stryker. Forthcoming in December 2008. More information here.

“Gender Pluralisms: Under the Transgender Umbrella,” in  Transgender Rights. Edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2006.

He is a co-editor, with Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter, of Transgender Rights (available from Minnesota University Press, 2006).  Table of contents in PDF here.

Paisley Currah, Gael Gunden Guevara, Richard M. Juang. 2007. Trans Politics, Social Change and Justice: An Activist Guide, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies with the support of the Gill Foundation and the Open Society Institute. Some articles in both English and Spanish.

“The Other Sex Lawrence v. Texas,” 10 Cardozo Women’s Law Journal, No. 2 (Winter 2004) 321.

“Unprincipled Exclusions: The Struggle for Legislative and Judicial Protections for Transgendered People,” co-authored with Shannon Minter, in Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity, eds. Elizabeth Bernstein and Laurie Schnafer (New York: Routledge, 2004); revised and expanded from an article of the same name in the College of William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. &, Issue 1, Fall 2000.

"The Transgender Rights Imaginary," 4 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 705 (2003).

“Introduction,” co-authored with Alisa Solomon, Queer Ideas: The David R. Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies (New York: Feminist Press, 2003).

"Queer Theory, Lesbian and Gay Rights, and Transsexual Marriages," in Identity/Space/Power, ed. Mark Blasius (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).