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1988: Transgender Roles, Gender Variance

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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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This article may contribute to community understanding by clarifying how transgender identity and history is described, debated, or represented within the Collective corpus.

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Granular comparative context

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.

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5 2004

11 2005

4 2006

89 2007

64 2008

47 2009

14 2010

124 2011

111 2012

237 2013

119 2014

28 2015

19 2016

38 2017

39 2018

15 2019

2 2020

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2 2024

1 2025

Presence by member publication

Transadvocate.com840
Cristan’s Research83
The TERFs52

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Community and organizing469
Law and civil rights424
Education and youth273
Culture, identity, and representation270
Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
History, archives, and memory214
Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
Healthcare and medicine197
Public policy and governance181
Feminism and gender politics178

Academic framings in this topic

Interpretive analysis442
Historical analysis278
Clinical and medical analysis165
Psychological analysis138
Qualitative and interview research112
Media and discourse analysis103
Critical theory72
Empirical and quantitative research62

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Public accommodations and facilities170
Civil rights and anti-discrimination160
Criminal justice and public safety119
Elections and democratic governance94
Research ethics and data governance71
Labor and employment policy39
Housing and social services38
Administrative classification and identity documents35

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Cristan

125 publications · 110 inbound sources/citations