Being and Becoming Professionally Other: Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans* Academics is a path-clearing book that provides a rich, in-depth account of the lived experiences of 39 transgender or trans* academics.

Acknowledgements - Introduction: The Transgender Tipping Point - Theoretical Interlude: Embodied Sedimentation - Embodied Sedimentation: Trans* Academics' Gender Identities - Theoretical Interlude: Microfoundations and Inequality Regimes - "A Sense of Paranoia and Hypersensitivity": Articulations of the Microfoundations of Trans* Academics' Experiences - Theoretical Interlude: Institutional Logics Perspective and Neoliberal Governmentality - Within the Academic Market/Workplace - Theoretical Interlude: Thinking Through Thresholds - "A Threshold Across": How Organizational Contexts Shape Trans* Academics' Experiences - Theoretical Interlude: Articulating Resistance - Uncovering Trans* Academics' Resistance and Disruption - Theoretical Interlude: Critical Scholar/Activist Stance - Pulling Across Thresholds: Towards a Coalitional Politics of Liberation and New Vision of Gender in Academic Organizations - Methodological Appendix - Index.