ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

Under, Beside and Beyond the Transgender Umbrella

chapter 4|17 pages

Age, Sexuality and Intersectionalities

Spatial Experiences of Brazilian Travestis and Transwomen Aging Process and the Sex Market

chapter 5|15 pages

Social Inclusion

Measuring the Invisible and the Insignificant

chapter 6|15 pages

Political Entanglements

Practicing, Designing and Implementing Critical Trans Politics Through Social Scientific Research

chapter 7|33 pages

Constructing an Ethics of Depathologization

Epistemological, Methodological and Ethical Reflections in Trans and Intersex Studies

chapter 8|24 pages

Transnormativities

Reterritorializing Perceptions and Practice

chapter 9|15 pages

Cisnormative and Transnormative Misgendering

Holding Gender Minorities Accountable to Gender Expectations in Mainstream and Trans/Queer Spaces

chapter 10|19 pages

Transitioning Through the Toilet

Changing Transgender Discourse and the Recognition of Transgender Identities in Japan

chapter 11|16 pages

Contested Identities

Cisgender Women in Trans Relationships and the Politics of Naming