THE GENDER BINARY MEETS THE GENDER-VARIANT CHILD: Parents' Negotiations with Childhood Gender Variance

Until recently, raising a young child as transgender was culturally unintelligible. Most scholarship on transgender identity refers to adults' experiences and perspectives. Now, the increasing visibility of gender-variant children, as they are identified by the parents who raise them, presents...

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Published in:Gender & society 2015-06, Vol.29 (3), p.338-361
Main Author: RAHILLY, ELIZABETH P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Bargaining
Childhood
Children
Children & youth
Conformity
Everyday life
Feminism
Feminist theory
Foucauldian analysis
Gender
Gender roles
Gender studies
Ideology
LGBTQ people
Literacy
Parent-child relations
Parenting
Parents & parenting
Resistance
Transgender persons
Truth
Variance analysis
Visibility
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