Trans Lives in a Globalizing World (eBook, ePUB)

Rights, Identities and Politics
Redaktion: Ryan, J. Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume seeks to explore contemporary trans lives in a world that is both global and increasingly globalizing, examining the nuances of the rights, identities, and politics that make up the varied spectrum of what has come to be included under the largely Western imposed label of "trans".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429513886
• Artikelnr.: 59969216

Autorenporträt

J. Michael Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland, United States of America. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of multiple volumes including COVID-19: Global pandemic, societal responses, ideological solutions (Routledge 2021), COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations (Routledge 2021), Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019), and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary issues and challenges (Lynne-Rienner 2020, with Helen Rizzo).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Trans lives in a global(-izing) world: Rights, identities, and
politics; Section I: Trans identities; Chapter 2: Displaying trans
(in)visibilities; Chapter 3: Globalization and change among the hijras of
South Asia; Chapter 4: Non-binary identity and the double edged sword of
globalization; Chapter 5: (Re)making "transgender" identities in global
media and popular culture; Section Ii: Trans rights; Chapter 6: Medicalized
transgender bodies: depriving autonomy, confering humanness, and bestowing
cisgenderism; Chapter 7: Gender affirming surgeries in a global context:
the role of medical, legal, and social norms; Chapter 8: A transgender
perspective on human rights: the case of the world bank and the united
states agency for international development; Section Iii: Trans politics;
Chapter 9: Stronger together: the global shift to transgender-inclusive
armed forces; Chapter 10: Moving elsewhere: the complex genealogies of
trans studies in the academy; Chapter 11: Fleeing across the globe: trans
asylum seekers; Chapter 12: Legal gender recognition: building the
infrastructure for trans communities to thrive