Rethinking Transgender Identities; Reflections from Around the Globe

Description

Transgender studies is an umbrella field that brings into focus a range of embodied gender identities that exhibit considerable variance. To date, there has been little published on trans, gender variant and intersex people. This volume rectifies this through exploring 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. Bringing together original research in the form of interviews, participatory methods, and cultural texts and grouped into the following nine themes: popular culture and new media; indigeneity; law, policy and state; time; place; health; sexualities; and activisms, each topic will be developed in relation to transgender, and will explore the politics, lived realities, strategies, mobilisations, age, ethnicity, activisms, and communities of transgender people, across different spatial scales and times. Taken together, the research will provide a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research which will appeal to scholars 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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures About the Editors Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Under, Beside and Beyond the Transgender Umbrella 2 Defining a Cross-dresser 3 Brother (“xiong di”) Communities in Mainland China 4 Age, Sexuality and Intersectionalities: Spatial Experiences of Brazilian Travestis 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 Scientific Research 7 Constructing an Ethics of Depathologization: Epistemological, Methodological and Ethical Reflections in Trans and Intersex Studies 8 Transnormativities: Reterritorializing Perceptions and Practice 9 Cisnormative and Transnormative Misgendering: Holding Gender Minorities Accountable to Gender Expectations in Mainstream and Trans/Queer Spaces 10 Transitioning 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