Book review: Transforming gender, sex, and place: gender variant geographies

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