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We received the following e-mail with a request for info to do Transgender Research in Germany. Please see if you can help.

 

There is somebody who I mail with on a regular basis, from Germany, who is currently looking for information re: S African’s relating to medical information, specific in the trans and intrsex communities. I will try and find her some doccies too, if anyone of you want to comment on your own “personal experience”, way of seeing it etc. I started by pasting her intro of herself to me, in a previous mail long ago. The second piece I pasted in, was her request yesterday to me. Maybe if any of you have time, read through and comment to me or directly to her at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Intro

Maybe I'll start with a small introduction of myself: I'm a 33 year old female and white bodied transgender. I'm German, but I've lived two years of my childhood in Ethiopia. Apart from short stays in Ethiopia, Morocco and Tunisia in adulthood, I stayed a year in the USA and 20 month in Benin. My mayor research interests are: Gender, Medical Anthropology, Queer Theory and Cognitive Methods.

At the moment I'm working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and leading junior scientist in the IMPETUS Project A5, University of Cologne. Additionally I've given courses at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne about: methods in cultural anthropology, feminist researcch methods, queer theory and practical training in fieldwork with an excursion to Morocco.

Since I've just recently finished my doctoral theses on health and therapeutic pathways in Benin (West Africa) my research topic on transgender issues has still to be worked out. But I'm thinking about something concerning the themes: legal issues for transidentified people, body conceptions and alterations, globalisation and change in gender conceptions.

Yesterday’s request:

I'm looking for literature, which focuses on the transformation of medical knowledge in (South-)Africa (concerning Trans- and Intersex-people) and the relations of these transformations to global reference systems such as biomedicine, biomedical research in Africa, medical technologies, WHO-standards, etc. I've got also special interest in medical practice and argumentation in juridical contexts.

I am very greatful for any information on these topics.

Thank you,

Thamar

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Dr. Thamar Klein

Institut für Völkerkunde
der Universität zu Köln
IMPETUS-Projekt
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
D-50923 Köln





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