Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

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Univ of California Press, Aug 17, 2018 - Social Science - 320 pages

Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach the state to alter the gender designation on their passports and birth certificates.

Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, sociologist Tey Meadow depicts the intricate social processes that shape gender acquisition. Where once atypical gender expression was considered a failure of gender, now it is a form of gender. Engaging and rigorously argued, Trans Kids underscores the centrality of ever more particular configurations of gender in both our physical and psychological lives, and the increasing embeddedness of personal identities in social institutions.


 

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Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Gender Troubles
The Gender Clinic
Building a Parent Movement
Anxiety and Gender Regulation
Telling Gender Stories
From Failure to Form
A Note on the Language of Gender
Notes
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About the author (2018)

Tey Meadow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Meadow is coeditor of Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology with D'Lane Compton and Kristen Schilt.

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TitleTrans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
AuthorTey Meadow
Editionreprint
PublisherUniv of California Press, 2018
ISBN0520964160, 9780520964167
Length320 pages
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Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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