Transgender identities : : towards a social analysis of gender diversity / / edited by Sally Hines and Tam Sanger.

• Superior document: Routledge research in gender and society ; 24
• TeilnehmendeR: Hines, Sally.; Sanger, Tam.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in gender and society ; 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world, representing the cutting-edge scholarship in transgender studies. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology and gender and sexuality studies.

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Emerging Identities; 1 The Emergence of New Transgendering Identities in the Age of the Internet; 2 Becoming Knowably Gendered: The Production of Transgender Possibilities and Constraints in the Mass and Alternative Press from 1990-2005 in the United States; 3 Telling Trans Stories: (Un)doing the Science of Sex; Part II Trans Governance; 4 Recognising Diversity?: The Gender Recognition Act and Transgender Citizenship

5 Transsexual Agents: Negotiating Authenticity and Embodiment within the UK's Medicolegal System6 (In)Visibility in the Workplace: The Experiences of Trans-Employees in the UK; Part III Transforming Identities; 7 The Impact of Race on Gender Transformation in a Drag Troupe; 8 Transgendering in an Urban Dutch Streetwalking Zone; 9 Beyond Borders: Lived Experiences of Atypically Gendered Transsexual People; Part IV Transforming Theory; 10 Who Put the 'Hetero' in Sexuality?; 11 Corporeal Silences and Bodies that Speak: The Promises and Limitations of Queer in Lesbian/Queer Sexual Spaces

12 Towards a Sociology of Gender Diversity: The Indian and UK Cases13 Beyond Gender and Sexuality Binaries in Sociological Theory: The Case for Transgender Inclusion; Contributors; Index