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Public Health, Private Parts: A Feminist Public-Health Approach to Trans Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Krista Scott-Dixon
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Abstract

This paper identifies and examines the possible contributions that emerging fields of study, particularly feminist public health, can make to enhancing and expanding trans/feminist theory and practice. A feminist public-health approach that is rooted in a tradition of political economy, social justice and equity studies, and an anti-oppression orientation, provides one of the most comprehensive “toolboxes” of perspectives, theoretical frameworks, methods, practices, processes, and strategies for trans-oriented scholars and activists.

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Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities
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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities , Summer 2009 , pp. 33 - 55
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Copyright © 2009 by Hypatia, Inc.

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