Rethinking Transgender Identities

Petra L. Doan is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University and a leading international researcher on the topic of trans geographies and planning. Lynda Johnston is a Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand, and an expert in feminist, embodied and queer geographies and more specifically in geographies of gender, sexualities, tourism and social justice.

List of figures. About the editors. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Under, Beside and Beyond the Transgender Umbrella. 2. Defining a cross-dress. 3. Brother (‘xiong di’) communities in Mainland China. 4. Age, sexuality and intersectionalities: Spatial experiences of Brazilian travesties and transwomen aging process and the sex market. 5. Social inclusion: Measuring the invisible and the insignificant. 6. Political Entanglements: Practicing, Designing and Implementing Critical Trans Politics through Social Science Research. 7. Constructing an ethics of depathologisation: Epistemological, methodological and ethical reflections in trans and intersex studies. 8. Transnormativities: Reterritorialising Perceptions and Practice. 9. Cisnornative and Transnormative Misgendering: Holding Gender Minorities Accountable to Gender Expectations in Mainstream and Trans / Queer spaces. 10. Transiting through the toilet: Changing transgender discourse and the recognition of transgender identities in Japan. 11. Contested Identities: Cisgender Women in Trans Relationships and the Politics of Naming. 12. ‘When a trans is killed another thousand rise!’: Transnecropolitics and resistance in Brazil. Index.