The Flourishing of Transgender Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID13087482
AuthorsRegina Kunzel (corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume1
Issue1-2
Pages285-297
Publication date2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2328-9252 • E-ISSN: 2328-9260
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/23289252-2399461
OpenAlexW2124967365
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited8

For the past decade or so, ‘‘emergent’’ has often appeared alongside ‘‘transgender studies’’ to describe a growing scholarly field. As of 2014, transgender studies can boast several conferences, a number of edited collections and thematic journal issues, courses in some college curricula, and—with this inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly—an academic journal with a premier university press. But while the scholarly trope of emergence conjures the cutting edge, it can also be an infantilizing temporality that communicates (and contributes to) perpetual marginalization. An emergent field is always on the verge of becoming, but it may never arrive. The recent publication of several new edited collections and special issues of journals dedicated to transgender studies makes manifest the arrival of a vibrant

Flourishing · Sociology · Transgender · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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