Rethinking Transgender Identities

Author : Petra L. Doan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317041224
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Transgender Identities written by Petra L. Doan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dallas Denny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134821107
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Concepts in Transgender Identity written by Dallas Denny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. This meaningful study looks at the transsexual experience from the point of view of those that are living experts, those that live transsexualism or cross-dressing and have been directly affected.

Author : Sally Hines
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135148090
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgender Identities written by Sally Hines and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world. The first section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which social, cultural, legal and medical developments shape new identities on both an individual and collective level. Rather than simply reflecting social change, these shifts work to actively construct contemporary identities. The second section, "Trans Governance," examines how law and social policy have responded to contemporary gender shifts. The third section, "Transforming Identity," explores gender and sexual identity practices within cultural and subcultural spaces. The final section, "Transforming Theory?", offers a theoretical reflection on the increasing visibility of trans people in today’s society and traces the challenges and the contributions transgender theory has brought to gender theory, queer theory and sociological approaches to identity and citizenship. Featuring contributions from throughout the world, this volume represents the cutting-edge scholarship in transgender studies and will be of interest to scholars and students interested in gender, sexuality, and sociology.

Author : Micah Rajunov
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546106
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nonbinary written by Micah Rajunov and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when your gender doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. The powerful first-person narratives of this collection show us a world where gender exists along a spectrum, a web, a multidimensional space. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships. From Suzi, who wonders whether she’ll ever “feel” like a woman after living fifty years as a man, to Aubri, who grew up in a cash-strapped fundamentalist household, to Sand, who must reconcile the dual roles of trans advocate and therapist, the writers’ conceptions of gender are inextricably intertwined with broader systemic issues. Labeled gender outlaws, gender rebels, genderqueer, or simply human, the voices in Nonbinary illustrate what life could be if we allowed the rigid categories of “man” and “woman” to loosen and bend. They speak to everyone who has questioned gender or has paused to wonder, What does it mean to be a man or a woman—and why do we care so much?

Author : Rogers Brubaker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691181187
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans written by Rogers Brubaker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and race In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as black? Taking the controversial pairing of “transgender” and “transracial” as his starting point, Rogers Brubaker shows how gender and race, long understood as stable, inborn, and unambiguous, have in the past few decades opened up—in different ways and to different degrees—to the forces of change and choice. Transgender identities have moved from the margins to the mainstream with dizzying speed, and ethnoracial boundaries have blurred. Paradoxically, while sex has a much deeper biological basis than race, choosing or changing one's sex or gender is more widely accepted than choosing or changing one’s race. Yet while few accepted Dolezal’s claim to be black, racial identities are becoming more fluid as ancestry—increasingly understood as mixed—loses its authority over identity, and as race and ethnicity, like gender, come to be understood as something we do, not just something we have. By rethinking race and ethnicity through the multifaceted lens of the transgender experience—encompassing not just a movement from one category to another but positions between and beyond existing categories—Brubaker underscores the malleability, contingency, and arbitrariness of racial categories. At a critical time when gender and race are being reimagined and reconstructed, Trans explores fruitful new paths for thinking about identity.

Author : Dallas Denny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134821174
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Concepts in Transgender Identity written by Dallas Denny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. This meaningful study looks at the transsexual experience from the point of view of those that are living experts, those that live transsexualism or cross-dressing and have been directly affected.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136783245
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Trouble written by Judith Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its initial publication in 1990, this book has become a key work of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where the author began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices. Overall, this book offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

Author : Katie Rain Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481418254
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Normal written by Katie Rain Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her unique, generous, and affecting voice, nineteen-year-old Katie Rain Hill shares her personal journey of undergoing gender reassignment. Now with a reading group guide! Katie Rain Hill realized very young that a serious mistake had been made; she was a girl who had been born in the body of a boy. Suffocating under her peers’ bullying and the mounting pressure to be “normal,” Katie tried to take her life at the age of eight years old. After several other failed attempts, she finally understood that “Katie”—the girl trapped within her—was determined to live. In this first-person account, Katie reflects on her pain-filled childhood and the events leading up to the life-changing decision to undergo gender reassignment as a teenager. She reveals the unique challenges she faced while unlearning how to be a boy and shares what it was like to navigate the dating world—and experience heartbreak for the first time—in a body that matched her gender identity. Told in an unwaveringly honest voice, Rethinking Normal is a coming-of-age story about transcending physical appearances and redefining the parameters of “normalcy” to embody one’s true self.

Author : Susan Stryker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135398917
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transgender Studies Reader written by Susan Stryker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.

Author : Dr Laura Campbell
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Binary written by Dr Laura Campbell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Binary: Rethinking Gender Affirming Care In recent years, there has been a growing movement to rethink gender-affirming care. This movement is based on the understanding that gender is not a binary, but rather a spectrum. This means that there are many different ways to be a man, a woman, or something else entirely. Traditionally, gender-affirming care has been focused on helping transgender people transition to the gender they identify with. This often involves medical interventions, such as hormone therapy or surgery. However, many transgender people do not want or need these interventions. They simply want to be able to live their lives in a way that is consistent with their gender identity. The movement to rethink gender-affirming care is about providing more options for transgender people. It is about recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to gender transition. It is also about ensuring that transgender people have access to the care they need, regardless of their financial resources. This book is a guide to the new world of gender-affirming care. It provides information on a wide range of topics, including: The different ways to be transgender The different types of gender-affirming care How to find a qualified provider How to pay for gender-affirming care How to advocate for yourself This book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in learning more about gender-affirming care. It is also a valuable resource for transgender people who are seeking care. If you are interested in learning more about gender-affirming care, or if you are a transgender person seeking care, please order your copy of "Beyond Binary: Rethinking Gender Affirming Care" today. This book will provide you with the information you need to make informed decisions about your care.