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Description
America through Transgender Eyes provides an opportunity for readers to look at American society through the eyes of transgender people at a time when movements for and against transgender people permeate socio-political discussions throughout the nation. This book provides readers with important insights into the beauty and struggle of transgender people, identities, experiences, and relationships. As political, religious, and scientific traditions update their arguments in relation to growing recognition of transgender lives and histories, America through Transgender Eyes offers an opportunity to visualize the way such traditions appear to some of the people often left out of them. As political battles about the rights of transgender Americans grow throughout the nation, this book provides an important introduction to this population for voters, leaders, activists, and scholars seeking to make sense of the shifting gender dynamics of contemporary America.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Coming Out (or Not) as Trans
3 Transgender Experience in LGBTQIA Communities
4 Transgender Experience in Cisgender Realities
5 Transgender Experience with Religion
6 Transgender Experience with Medical Science
7 Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Product details
Published | Apr 01 2019 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 208 |
ISBN | 9781538122075 |
Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Illustrations | 6 tables |
Dimensions | 228 x 150 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Trans people are becoming a more visible and vocal community within the United States and around the globe. Sociology must grapple with how to better think and talk about gender outside of normative understandings of men and women. This book offers an interruption to the dominant cisgender worldview that is characteristic of sociology as a discipline. It serves as a primer for all sociologists from undergraduates to career faculty.
Austin H. Johnson, Kenyon College
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America through Transgender Eyes offers important and incisive insights into the lived experiences of transgender people. This book maps how transgender people experience cisgendering reality and how cisgendering reality shapes gender relations and dominant structures. The book also teaches students how gender operates in US society, and the consequences of these gendered processes for everyone.
Brandon Robinson, University of California, Riverside