Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender? Author(s): Susan Stryker, Paisley Currah and Lisa Jean Moore Source: Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 3/4, Trans- (Fall - Winter, 2008), pp. 11-22 Published by: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27649781 Accessed: 08-04-2019 16:06 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms The Feminist Press at the City University of New York is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Women's Studies Quarterly This content downloaded from 128.114.34.22 on Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:06:26 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms INTRODUCTION: TRANS-, TRANS, OR TRANSGENDER? SUSAN STRYKER, PAISLEY CURRAH, AND LISA JEAN MOORE The title that appears on the cover of this journal is Trans-, not Trans, and not Transgender. A little hyphen is perhaps too flimsy a thing to carry as much conceptual freight as we intend for it bear, but we think the hyphen matters a great deal, precisely because it marks the difference between the implied nominalism of "trans" and the explicit relationality of "trans-," which remains open-ended and resists premature foreclosure by attach ment to any single suffix.