Trans Lives

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7204-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten

Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before. Trans groups have become targets of intense online abuse and hostile political and religious campaigns. The media abound with reports on a few glamorous trans women, or anti-trans attacks, but say little about the everyday realities of trans lives or their global diversity. In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups around the world. She looks at the forces shaping trans lives, including medicine and its limitations, precarity and poverty, unequal gender relations, the role of sex work, and encounters with the state and the corporate economy. She discusses what is behind anti-trans campaigns, criticizing the simplistic idea that ‘transphobia’ explains these, and suggesting more potent causes. Finally, by exploring the creative ways trans groups have organized, she argues for the contribution they can and should make to solving our shared contemporary crises. Written in clear and vivid language, this book offers illuminating new perspectives on gender transitions, and on gender itself. Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before. Trans groups have become targets of intense online abuse and hostile campaigns. The media abound with reports on a few glamorous trans women or anti-trans attacks, but say little about the everyday realities of trans lives or their global diversity. In this book, Raewyn Connell, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups around the world. She looks at the forces shaping trans lives, including medicine and its limitations, precarity and poverty, unequal gender relations, the role of sex work, the state and the corporate economy. She discusses what is behind anti-trans campaigns, criticizing the simplistic idea that ‘transphobia’ explains these, suggesting more potent causes. Finally, by exploring the creative ways trans groups have organized, she argues for the contribution they can and should make to solving our shared contemporary crises. Written in clear and vivid language, this book offers illuminating new perspectives on gender transitions, and on gender itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connell, Raewyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction I 1. Real lives 2. People who are not trans, and the nature of gender 3. Transitions and transition work II 4. The doctors and trans health 5. The world around us 6. Anti-trans III 7. Changing the world In conclusion Introduction

I
1. Real lives 2. People who are not trans, and the nature of gender 3. Transitions and transition work

II 4. The doctors and trans health 5. The world around us 6. Anti-trans

III 7. Changing the world In conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Raewyn Connell is among the world’s leading sociologists and gender researchers, and is herself a trans woman. Her books include Masculinities, Gender and Power, Making the Difference, and Southern Theory. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney.