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...

Feminist geographies of migration suggest that migration brings about social change, potentially disrupting patriarchal structures and bringing about new spaces where gender relations can be renegotiated and reconfigured. This book adopts a transnational lens and focuses attention to the Global South to analyse how gender, class and ethnicity are renegotiated through internal and cross-border migration. It does this through multi-sited itinerant ethnography conducted with Bolivian migrants from the same community of origin. The analytical approach encompasses a multi-scalar and multi-sited...