1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance
While cross-cultural transgender roles such as the Berdache have encountered a resurgence of interest, little anthropological attention has been paid to Western gender variance or to the closely related subject of gender identity. – Abstracts of the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1988, Volume 87, page 147
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance” may matter to community readers because it records a specific intervention in debates about transgender identity and history, with particular attention to culture, identity, and representation. The permanent record makes that intervention easier to locate and compare with other Collective coverage.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2011 at Cristan’s Research, “1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to culture, identity, and representation. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
No dominant policy frame was detected in “1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of transgender identity and history may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship diagram distinguishes sub-themes, siblings, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community21%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing519
- Law and civil rights455
- Culture, identity, and representation305
- Education and youth288
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse247
- Healthcare and medicine229
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization226
- History, archives, and memory211
- Public policy and governance200
- Family and relationships186
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- Public accommodations and facilities170
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination161
- Criminal justice and public safety128
- Elections and democratic governance95
- Research ethics and data governance73
- Labor and employment policy51
- Housing and social services37
- Administrative classification and identity documents36
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Mari
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Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Culture, identity, and representation, Healthcare and medicine.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
Continue through the Collective
1981: Transgender Identity
Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.
A disturbed peace: selected writings of an Irish Catholic homosexual, 1981 Surely she was there to make people comfortable with transgender identity. – Page 28
1982: Transgenders = Transsexuals, Christine Jorgensen
Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.
Appeal-Democrat, Tuesday, May 11, 1982, p. A-10 Associated Press Article, 1982 ‘Transgender’ FRESNO (AP)—Christine Jorgensen says her highly publicized sex change operation three decades age gave her the…
1987: Transsexual and their Transgender Experience
Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.
Transsexuals utilize the concepts of their own culture to construct their own transgender experience. – In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rights of Passage, 1987, Page 100
My Gender Identity Is In Order
Adds research, documentation, or primary-source context.
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