Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
Tey Meadow
Abstract
In the first comprehensive academic treatment of the emerging social, medical, and psychological category of the transgender child, ethnographer Tey Meadow introduces readers to a generation of parents who actively facilitate gender nonconformity in their children. Whereas previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, these families call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and even approach the state to alter their legal gender. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, Meadow d ... More
Keywords: transgender, children, gender nonconformity, psychiatry, identity, institutions, gender, sexuality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520275034 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: January 2019 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520275034.001.0001 |
