"[Going Stealth] accomplishes the best of what we imagine theory to be good for—making sense of our everyday experiences, grounding personal interactions with the state in histories of structural oppression, and illuminating the broader context of our banal negotiations between dignity, resilience, convenience, resistance, politics-inpractice, and privilege. . . . Going Stealth is a helpful contribution to multiple literatures, and it demonstrates the ways in which robust interdisciplinarity also requires solidarity in scholarship." — Lyndsey P. Beutin, Society & Space
"For academics and those with the wherewithal to struggle through it there's a great deal of intellectual value to be found in a book such as this." — Hans Rollmann, PopMatters
“Going Stealth is … topical and urgent, delving into contemporary hot-button issues of gendered bathrooms and TSA screening practices.”
— Elise Morrison, TDR: The Drama Review
"Beauchamp's multilayered 'transgender critique' adds to the literature on the subject in several meaningful ways.…Interestingly, the theory of intersectionality and critical race theory are conspicuously absent from the text, though it is grounded in their principles." — K. Gentles-Peart, Choice
"Going Stealth is written into scholarship that moves transgender studies beyond concentration on identity. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to research at the juncture between gender, sexuality, race, disability and surveillance studies. Going Stealth should appeal to any scholar in cultural studies, sociology and border studies." — Iwo Nord, European Journal of Women's Studies
"Going Stealth is an enjoyable read, offering timely reflection on security, conformity, fear, citizenship, and difference in our turbulent times." — Sara L. Crawley, Gender & Society
"Going Stealth will be useful for expanding on and bringing together the works of transgender studies and cultural studies, in particular appealing to sexuality scholars in general. This book will be of interest to those who are interested in the intersections between visibility, security, gender deviance, dis/ability, race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation/citizenship." — Kerry Scroggie, Amanda Brown & Esther Rothblum, Journal of Homosexuality
"Beauchamp takes great pains to establish that the very capacity for going stealth, for being intelligible according to binary gender norms vis-à-vis various state and non-state surveillance practices, is a mark of the racial and economic privilege that underscores and is assumed by mainstream transgender movements that seek accommodation via assimilation into binary normative heteropatriarchal structures of citizenship grounded in whiteness and access to capital.…His capacity to draw on multiple historical and contemporary archives to situate debates about gendered structures of inclusion and exclusion within struggles for racial and economic justice more broadly makes going Stealth a key text in critical trans/gender studies." — Ann Travers, Surveillance & Society
“Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a careful meshwork of historical and political analysis, attentive to the problems of existing critical frames.”
— Tony Wei Ling, Catalyst
“This innovative book is an important contribution to both trans studies and surveillance studies—particularly to analyses of the War on Terror, border enforcement, and identity documentation. Toby Beauchamp convincingly weaves together arguments about surveillance, migration, and trans embodiment. Making several critical interventions in trans studies and trans advocacy, this book addresses the ways that whiteness and immigration status are often assumed characteristics of trans subjecthood.” — Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
“Going Stealth is a brilliant intervention in the field of transgender studies and beyond, by way of its critique of the violent capacities of the surveillance state. From the identification document as an administrative practice to the airport and the public bathroom as sites where the anxieties of the state around certain bodies and bodily technologies play out, Toby Beauchamp traces a complex account of militarism, monitoring, and refusals. This book is essential reading for those who seek to understand and critique how surveillance arranges our lives.” — Simone Browne, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness