Trans Kids (eBook)

Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

Tey Meadow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96416-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Trans Kidsis a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach the state to alter the gender designation on their passports and birth certificates. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, sociologist Tey Meadow depicts the intricate social processes that shape gender acquisition. Where once atypical gender expression was considered a failure of gender, now it is a form of gender. Engaging and rigorously argued,Trans Kidsunderscores the centrality of ever more particular configurations of gender in both our physical and psychological lives, and the increasing embeddedness of personal identities in social institutions.

Inhalt

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments

1. Studying Each Other
2. Gender Troubles
3. The Gender Clinic
4. Building a Parent Movement
5. Anxiety and Gender Regulation
6. Telling Gender Stories
7. From Failure to Form

Appendix A: A Note on the Language of Gender
Appendix B: Methodology
Appendix C: List of Interviewees

Notes
Glossary
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: affirming gender nonconformity • affirming trans identity • atypical gender • atypical gender expression • facilitating gender • failure of gender • familial acceptance of trans identity • feminism gender sexuality • Gender • gender acquisition • gender and sex • Gender and Sexuality • Gender expression • Gender identity • Gender Ideology • gender nonconforming kids • Gender Studies • LGBT • LGBTQ • Queer Families • queer nonfiction • Queer Studies • Queer Theory • Trans • Transgender • transgender kids • transitioning gender • trans kids
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96416-0 / 0520964160
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96416-7 / 9780520964167