Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders

✍ Scribed by Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman and Meg-John Barker

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Series: Critical and applied approaches in sexuality, gender and identity
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female. It considers theoretical, research, practice, and activist perspectives; and outlines a basis for good practice when working with non-binary individuals. The first section provides an overview of historical, legal and academic aspects of this phenomenon. The second section explores how psychotherapeutic, psychological and psychiatric theory and practice are adapting to a non-binary model of gender, and the third section considers the body related aspects, from endocrinology to surgery. This work will appeal to a wide readership, from practitioners working with non-binary individuals - including psychologists, surgeons, social workers, nurses, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, psychotherapists and counselors, lawyers, and healthcare workers - to researchers interested in the study of gender identities, to students and gender activists.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Section 1. Societies -- Chapter 2: History and Cultural Diversity -- Chapter 3: Non-Binary Activism -- Chapter 4: Academic Theory -- Chapter 5: Law -- Section 2. Minds -- Chapter 6: Psychotherapy -- Chapter 7: Psychiatry -- Chapter 8: Psychology -- Section 3. Bodies -- Chapter 9: Child and adolescent endocrinology -- Chapter 10: Adult Endocrinology -- Chapter 11: Chest surgeries -- Chapter 12: Surgery for bodies commonly gendered as male -- Chapter 13: Genital surgery for bodies commonly gendered as female -- Chapter 14: Future Directions.