Transforming Gender, Sex, Place, and Space: Geographies of Gender Variance

2017 | Gender Studies

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 through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places. Transgender knowledges and practices move across borders, regions, rural-urban spaces, and nations and examples from around the world are used to determine that place is integral to the production of gendered identities. As well as the politics of identity, representation, and discourse, the real fleshy materiality of bodies and the spaces in which they dress, work, dance, eat, travel, have relationships, is also examined.

Arguing that bodies, gender, and space are inextricably linked, this book brings together contemporary scholarly debates, original empirical material, and popular culture to consider bodies and spaces that revolve around, and resist, binary gender.

Lynda Johnston (Author)