Transforming Gender, Sex, and Place: Gender Variant Geographies

ISBN-13: 9780367587741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Lynda Johnston

Opis

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

Spis treści

1 Transgressive bodies and places: Bending binaries 2 ‘There’s like a gazillion gender options now’ 3 Homes and familial places: Transitional spaces 4 Public and private (in)conveniences 5 Gender activism and alliances: Transforming place through protest 6 ‘I find it a bit weird at work coming out’: (In)secure workplace geographies 7 Sexed up and gender fluid urban nightscapes: Inclusive spaces? 8 Transnational and in transit(ion): Documenting bodies, nations and mobilities 9 Beyond, and back to, binaries

O autorze

Lynda Johnston is Deputy Dean, Associate Dean Academic and Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato. The current Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography (2016–2020), Lynda has also served as Editor for Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. Transforming Gender, Sex, and Place builds on previously published research, such as: gender and body building; pride politics and festivals; activism; drag queens and kings; queer sporting events and urban tourism.