Book Review
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Citation
Todd JD (2020) Book review: Transforming gender, sex, and place: gender variant geographies. Review of: Transforming gender, sex, and place: gender variant geographies by Lynda Johnston, London, Routledge, 2018, 208 pp., ISBN 9781472454799. Social & Cultural Geography, 21 (1), pp. 135-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1632058
Abstract
First paragraph: In this volume Lynda Johnston embarks on an ambitious project: to understand the relations between trans and gender variant people and the places and spaces they live through, by exploring their ¡®identities, subjectivities, bodily senses, moods, sensations and feeling of being in and/or out of place¡¯ (p. x). Sharing this goal with Johnston, and encouraged by her dedication to exploring both alienation and belonging in everyday life, I drank deeply from the connections she weaves through the lived experiences of her participants. Their stories are taken from Johnston¡¯s existing work exploring the spatialities of gendered relations, alongside a set of 22 interviews with adult trans, gender variant and intersex people predominantly of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Keywords
Geography, Planning and Development; Cultural Studies
Journal
Social & Cultural Geography: Volume 21, Issue 1
| Status | Published |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 31/12/2020 |
| Publication date online | 19/06/2019 |
| Date accepted by journal | 19/06/2019 |
| URL | |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| ISSN | 1464-9365 |
| eISSN | 1470-1197 |
| Item discussed | Transforming gender, sex, and place: gender variant geographies by Lynda Johnston, London, Routledge, 2018, 208 pp., ISBN 9781472454799 |