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This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender people's experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places.
Rethinking Transgender Identities brings together original research in the form of interviews, participatory methods, surveys, cultural texts and insightful commentary. The contributing scholars and activists are located in Aotearoa New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Catalan, China, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The collection explores the relationship between transgender identities and politics, lived realities, strategies, mobilizations, age, ethnicity, activisms and communities across different spatial scales and times.
Taken together, the chapters extend current research and provide an uthoritative state-of-the-art review of current research, which will appeal to cholars and graduate students working within the fields of sociology, gender studies, sexuality and queer studies, family studies, media and cultural studies, psychology, health, law, criminology, politics and human geography.
List of contents
List of figures. About the editors. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Under, Beside and Beyond the Transgender Umbrella. 2. Defining a cross-dress. 3. Brother (‘xiong di’) communities in Mainland China. 4. Age, sexuality and intersectionalities: Spatial experiences of Brazilian travesties and transwomen aging process and the sex market. 5. Social inclusion: Measuring the invisible and the insignificant. 6. Political Entanglements: Practicing, Designing and Implementing Critical Trans Politics through Social Science Research. 7. Constructing an ethics of depathologisation: Epistemological, methodological and ethical reflections in trans and intersex studies. 8. Transnormativities: Reterritorialising Perceptions and Practice. 9. Cisnornative and Transnormative Misgendering: Holding Gender Minorities Accountable to Gender Expectations in Mainstream and Trans / Queer spaces. 10. Transiting through the toilet: Changing transgender discourse and the recognition of transgender identities in Japan. 11. Contested Identities: Cisgender Women in Trans Relationships and the Politics of Naming. 12. ‘When a trans is killed another thousand rise!’: Transnecropolitics and resistance in Brazil. Index.
About the author
Petra L. Doan is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University and a leading international researcher on the topic of trans geographies and planning.
Lynda Johnston is a Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand, and an expert in feminist, embodied and queer geographies and more specifically in geographies of gender, sexualities, tourism and social justice.
Summary
This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender people’s experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places.
