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Transgender, gender variant and intersex people are in every sector
of all societies, yet little is known about their relationship to
place. Using a trans, feminist and queer geographical framework,
this book invites readers to consider the complex relationship
between transgender people, spaces and places. This book addresses
questions such as, how is place and space transformed by gender
variant bodies, and vice versa? Where do some gender variant people
feel in and / or out of place? What happens to space when binary
gender is unravelled and subverted? Exploring the diverse politics
of gender variant embodied experiences through interviews and
community action, this book demonstrates that gendered bodies are
constructed through different social, cultural and economic
networks. Firsthand stories and international examples reveal how
transgender people employ practices and strategies to both create
and contest different places, such as: bodies; homes; bathrooms;
activist spaces; workplaces; urban night spaces; nations and
transnational borders. Arguing that bodies, gender, sex and space
are inextricably linked, this book brings together contemporary
scholarly debates, original empirical material and popular culture
to consider bodies and spaces that revolve around, and resist,
binary gender. It will be a valuable resource in Geography, Gender
and Sexuality studies.
This volume explores 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. Rethinking
Transgender Identities brings together original research in the
form of interviews, participatory methods, surveys, cultural texts
and insightful commentary. The contributing scholars and activists
are located in Aotearoa New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Catalan,
China, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The
collection explores the relationship between transgender identities
and politics, lived realities, strategies, mobilizations, age,
ethnicity, activisms and communities across different spatial
scales and times. Taken together, the chapters extend current
research and provide an uthoritative state-of-the-art review of
current research, which will appeal to cholars 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.
Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where
embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed
and debated. From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyzes the
paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the
public display of queer bodies - the way they look, what they do,
who watches them, and under what regulations - is profoundly
important in constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodies and
cities. Drawing on extensive collections of interviews, visual and
written media accounts, photographs, advertisements, and her own
participation in these parades, Lynda Johnston gives a vibrant
account of 'queer tourism' in New Zealand, Australia, Scotland and
Italy. For each place, she looks at how the relationship between
the viewer and the viewed produces paradoxical concepts of bodily
difference, and considers how the queered spaces of gay pride
parades may prompt new understandings of power and tourism.
Examining the intersection of sexuality, space and tourism, and
using empirical data gathered at Gay Pride parades such as the
Sydney Mardi Gras, New Zealand HERO Parade and World Pride Roma
2000, this important work produces a deconstructive account of
tourism and presents new ways of thinking through the powerful
processes of subjectivity formation.
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary
gender and feminist geographies in an international and
multi-disciplinary context. It features 48 new contributions from
both experienced and emerging scholars, artists and activists who
critically review and appraise current spatial politics. Each
chapter advances the future development of feminist geography and
gender studies, as well as empirical evidence of changing
relationships between gender, power, place and space. Following an
introduction by the Editors, the handbook presents original work
organized into four parts which engage with relevant issues
including violence, resistance, agency and desire: Establishing
feminist geographies Placing feminist geographies Engaging feminist
geographies Doing feminist geographies The Routledge Handbook of
Gender and Feminist Geographies will be an essential reference work
for scholars interested in feminist geography, gender studies and
geographical thought.
Transgender, gender variant and intersex people are in every sector
of all societies, yet little is known about their relationship to
place. Using a trans, feminist and queer geographical framework,
this book invites readers to consider the complex relationship
between transgender people, spaces and places. This book addresses
questions such as, how is place and space transformed by gender
variant bodies, and vice versa? Where do some gender variant people
feel in and / or out of place? What happens to space when binary
gender is unravelled and subverted? Exploring the diverse politics
of gender variant embodied experiences through interviews and
community action, this book demonstrates that gendered bodies are
constructed through different social, cultural and economic
networks. Firsthand stories and international examples reveal how
transgender people employ practices and strategies to both create
and contest different places, such as: bodies; homes; bathrooms;
activist spaces; workplaces; urban night spaces; nations and
transnational borders. Arguing that bodies, gender, sex and space
are inextricably linked, this book brings together contemporary
scholarly debates, original empirical material and popular culture
to consider bodies and spaces that revolve around, and resist,
binary gender. It will be a valuable resource in Geography, Gender
and Sexuality studies.
This volume explores 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. Rethinking
Transgender Identities brings together original research in the
form of interviews, participatory methods, surveys, cultural texts
and insightful commentary. The contributing scholars and activists
are located in Aotearoa New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Catalan,
China, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The
collection explores the relationship between transgender identities
and politics, lived realities, strategies, mobilizations, age,
ethnicity, activisms and communities across different spatial
scales and times. Taken together, the chapters extend current
research and provide an uthoritative state-of-the-art review of
current research, which will appeal to cholars 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.
This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space,
place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro
level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer,
feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and
Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and sexuality
and how they are connected to both virtual and physical spaces and
places. Their aim is to enrich our understanding of sexual
identities and practices whether they be lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transsexual, asexual, queer, or heterosexual. They show that bodies
are defined and connected through media such as television, movies,
ads, and the Internet, as well as through "real" places such as
homes, churches, sports arenas, city streets, beaches, and
wilderness. Drawing on a diverse array of historical and
contemporary examples, the authors argue convincingly that sexual
politics permeate all places and spaces at every level of
geographical scale. Thus, they illustrate, sexuality affects the
way people live in and interact with space and place, as space and
place in turn affect people's sexuality."
Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of
humans as subjects. This collaboration by a group of feminist
researchers looks at subjectivity in relation to researchers, the
researched, and audiences, as well as at the connections between
subjectivity and knowledge. The authors argue that subjectivity is
spatialized in embodied, multiple, and fractured ways, challenging
the dominant notions of the rational, 'bounded' subject. A highly
original contribution to feminist geography, this book is equally
relevant to social science debates about using qualitative
methodologies and to ongoing discussions on the ethics of social
research.
Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where
embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed
and debated. From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the
paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the
public display of queer bodies - the way they look, what they do,
who watches them, and under what regulations - is profoundly
important in constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodies and
cities. Drawing on extensive collections of interviews, visuals and
written media accounts, photographs, advertisements, and her own
participation in these parades, Lynda Johnston gives a vibrant
account of 'queer tourism' in New Zealand, Australia, Scotland and
Italy. For each place, she looks at how the relationship between
the viewer and the viewed produces paradoxical concepts of bodily
difference, and considers how the queered spaces of gay pride
parades may prompt new understandings of power and tourism.
Examining the intersection of sexuality, space and tourism, and
using empirical data gathered at Gay pride parades such as the
Sydney Mardi Gras, New Zealand HERO Parade and World Pride Roma
2000, this important work produces a deconstructive account of
tourism and presents new ways of thinking through the powerful
processes of subjectivity formation.
This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space,
place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro
level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer,
feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and
Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and sexuality
and how they are connected to both virtual and physical spaces and
places. Their aim is to enrich our understanding of sexual
identities and practices whether they be lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transsexual, asexual, queer, or heterosexual. They show that bodies
are defined and connected through media such as television, movies,
ads, and the Internet, as well as through "real" places such as
homes, churches, sports arenas, city streets, beaches, and
wilderness. Drawing on a diverse array of historical and
contemporary examples, the authors argue convincingly that sexual
politics permeate all places and spaces at every level of
geographical scale. Thus, they illustrate, sexuality affects the
way people live in and interact with space and place, as space and
place in turn affect people's sexuality."
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