Zowie Davy - The SAGE Handbook of Global Sexualities

Zowie Davyis an Associate Professor in the Centre for LGBTQ Research, De Montfort University. Zowie's work centres on medicolegal constructions of gender and sexuality in healthcare. Her current research spans (trans) gender studies including critical approaches to gender dysphoria, a project on parents experiences of school cultures while supporting their trans children, and LGBT sex work, migration and health. Zowie has published a number of books and articles about transgender embodiment, and her book Recognizing Transsexuals won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2012.Ana Cristina Santoswith a background in sociology and a PhD in gender studies from the University of Leeds, works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Over the years she has coordinated a number of research projects on LGBTQI+, gender, dissident bodies, intimate citizenship and human rights. Between 2014 and 2019, she was awarded a Research Grant by the European Research Council to lead the cross-national study INTIMATE Citizenship, Care and Choice: The Micropolitics of Intimacy in Southern Europe (www.ces.uc.pt/intimate). Since 2018 she has been the PI for Portugal of the International Research Consortium for CILIA LGBTQI+ Lives, funded by the European Agency NORFACE, a role she will hold until 2021. Vice-chair of the Sexuality Research Network of the European Sociological Association between 2012 and 2016, since 2013 she has also been Co-Director of the international PhD programme Human Rights in Contemporary Societies. Her significant publications include Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe (2013) and Sexualities Research: Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practical Applications (2017, with A. King and I. Crowhurst), as well as the special issue Trans* Policy and Practice of Critical Social Policy (2018, with S. Hines, Z. Davy, S. Monro, J. Motmans and J. Van Der Ros).Chiara Bertoneis Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture at the University of Eastern Piedmont, where she teaches Sociology of the Family and chairs the BA in Social Work. Her main interests lie in gender, sexuality and family change. She has worked on sexual citizenship, non-heterosexual experiences and family relations, critical approaches to heterosexuality and masculinity, medicalising and healthist frames on sexuality. She has coordinated a European project on the families of origin of LG youth, and has contributed to research on European LGBT policies by local administrations. She is currently involved in participatory research on ageing women's everyday life beyond the couple. Her publications include the