The Routledge Research Companion to Transgender Studies

Transgender studies is an umbrella field that brings into focus a range of embodied gender identities that exhibit considerable variance. To date, there has been little published on trans, gender variant and intersex people. This volume rectifies this through exploring the diversity and complexity of transgender people’s experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places. Bringing together original research in the form of interviews, participatory methods, and cultural texts and grouped into the following nine themes: popular culture and new media; indigeneity; law, policy and state; time; place; health; sexualities; and activisms, each topic will be developed in relation to transgender, and will explore the politics, lived realities, strategies, mobilisations, age, ethnicity, activisms, and communities of transgender people, across different spatial scales and times. Taken together, the research will provide a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research which will appeal to scholars and graduate students working within the fields of sociology, gender studies, sexuality and queer studies, family studies, media and cultural studies, psychology, health, law, criminology, politics and human geography.

Lynda Johnston is a Professor in 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. Her publications include Space, Place and Sex: Geographies of Sexualities (2010) co-authored with Robyn Longhurst, Queering Tourism: Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades (2005) and Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies: The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research (2002), a multi-authored work. Lynda is currently working on a sole authored manuscript, Gender Variant Geographies, for Ashgate. Petra Doan is a leading international researcher on the topic of trans geographies and planning. She has several trans geographical and urban planning publications including: Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Space. London: Routledge (2015); Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice. Farnham: Ashgate (2011). Her 2012 sabbatical was spent as the John Bousfield Distinguished Planning Visitor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto where she continued to advance her research into urban trans gender issues. Petra is an editorial board member of Gender, Place and Culture.