Transforming Gender, Sex, Place, and Space: Geographies of Gender Variance

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Transgender, gender variant, and intersex people are in every sector of all societies yet little is known about their relationship to place. Furthering our understanding of the relationship between trans identity, place and power by using a trans geographical framework, Lynda Johnston invites readers to consider categories crossing and slipping in and around the concept of 'trans' trans-gender; trans-sex; trans-place; and, trans-space. Exploring the diversity and complexity of gender variant embodied experiences of place and space, this book demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places. Transgender knowledges and practices move across borders, regions, rural-urban spaces, and nations and examples from around the world are used to determine that place is integral to the production of gendered identities. As well as the politics of identity, representation, and discourse, the real fleshy materiality of bodies and the spaces in which they dress, work, dance, eat, travel, have relationships, is also examined. Arguing that bodies, gender, and space are inextricably linked, this book brings together contemporary scholarly debates, original empirical material, and popular culture to consider bodies and spaces that revolve around, and resist, binary gender. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of figures Preface Acknowledgements 1 Transgressive bodies and places: bending binaries Transforming gender and sex Transforming place and space Some notes on methodology Chapter outline 2 ‘There’s like a gazillion gender options now’ Childhood spaces: gender memories Coming out spaces 3 Homes and familial places: transitional spaces Gender variant homes: material and imaginative The nexus between home, power and gender variant identities Home and homelessness as multi-gendered and multi-scalar 4 Public and private (in)conveniences Why are bathrooms gendered and segregated? Legalising exclusion: policing bodily norms and spaces 5 Gender activism and alliances: transforming place through protest Paradoxical activist spaces: (no) pride in gay parades Genderqueering community groups: everyday activisms 6 ‘I find it a bit weird at work coming out’: (In)secure workplace geographies Transactions and transitions: working bodies Collegial workplaces: precarious power 7 Sexed up and gender fluid urban nightscapes: inclusive spaces? Drag queening space down-under: touching moments From burlesque shows to private parties 8 Transnational and transit(ion): documenting bodies, nations and mobilities Living (with)out legal status Documenting sex and gender within and across nation states 9 Conclusion: beyond and back to binaries References Index