Frontmatter and Editorial

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the editorial: The December issue of gender forum is dedicated to the topic of Transgender Studies. Transgender Studies is a field of academic inquiry that is interrelated with Gender Studies, Feminist Studies and Queer Theory. In her introduction to the first anthology in the field, Susan Stryker defined it as “concerned with anything that disrupts, denaturalizes, rearticulates, and makes visible the normative linkages we generally assume to exist between the biological specificity of the sexually differentiated human body, the social roles and statuses that particular form of body is expected to occupy, the subjectively experienced relationship between a gendered sense of self and social expectations of gender-role performance, and the cultural mechanisms that work to sustain of thwart specific configurations of gendered personhood” (3).