New Books in the Arts & Sciences:
Celebrating Recent Work by Tey Meadow
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
By: Tey Meadow
Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach the state to alter the gender designation on their passports and birth certificates.
Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, sociologist Tey Meadow depicts the intricate social processes that shape gender acquisition. Where once atypical gender expression was considered a failure of gender, now it is a form of gender. Engaging and rigorously argued, Trans Kids underscores the centrality of ever more particular configurations of gender in both our physical and psychological lives, and the increasing embeddedness of personal identities in social institutions.
Participants
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Author
Tey Meadow
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality
Columbia University
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Speaker
Shamus Khan
Professor of Sociology
Columbia University
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Speaker
Ken Corbett
Clinical Assistant Professor
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
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Speaker
Julia Serano
Writer, performer, activist, musician, and biologist
