Rethinking Transgender Identities

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p>