Concept information
Preferred term
transgender studies
Definition
- Transgender studies is an emerging interdisciplinary academic field that takes gender nonnormativity, broadly construed, as its object of study. Research and theory within transgender studies focus on the cultural representations, political movements, social organization, and lived experience of various forms of gender nonconformity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Transgender Studies]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/transgender_studies
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