"This important new book by Alessandra Lemma provides a succinct overview of psychoanalytic understandings, approaches, and controversies around transgender identifications. Illustrated with case vignettes, Lemma provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research and a critica…
"This manuscript productively joins affect theory and trans studies to examine how narratives around gender transition actually reinforce racial and gender hegemonies. Malatino notes that trans structures of feeling are ofted coded as negative, on both sides of the transition...…
The number of people coming out as transgender continues to rise, and this book shows healthcare and medical practitioners how to deliver excellent primary and secondary care to gender diverse patients. This guide shows how to sensitively treat and care for transgender patients …
"The number of people coming out as transgender continues to rise, and this book informs healthcare and medical practitioners on how to deliver excellent primary and secondary care to gender diverse patients. This guide shows how to senstively treat and care for transgender pati…
A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siècle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" existed, there were those who experienced their gender in complex ways. Before Trans examines the lives and writings of Jane Dieulaf…
"While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the c…
Introduction -- Pre-op -- Gender trouble -- One life to live -- Transitioning -- Designing men -- What kind of man am I? -- Last butch standing -- Waiting for the big reveal -- Turn and face the strange -- I am enough
Sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon's office, having traveled to Florida from across the United States in order to masculinize their chests. Ben, Lucas, Parker, and Nadia wish to feel more comf…
Long description: Transgeschlechtliche Menschen werden vermehrt auch in populären Medien dargestellt und repräsentiert. Nicht selten ist diese mediale Sichtbarkeit von Trans* jedoch geprägt von Voyeurismus und Sensationsgier. Robin K. Saalfeld geht daher der Frage nach, wie Tran…
Individuals who transition from one gender to another are often in some degree of a relationship, and over 55% of these relationships endure through the transition process.While more resources are emerging for trans people themselves, there is very little information available f…