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Transgender studies, also called trans studies or trans* studies, is an interdisciplinary field of academic research dedicated to the study of gender identity, gender expression, and gender embodiment, as well as to the study of various issues of relevance to transgender and gender variant populations. [1]
Entrance of Bishshoshahitto kendro building in Dhaka. Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (BSK) (Bengali: বিশ্ব সাহিত্য কেন্দ্র, meaning 'World-Literature Centre'), is a non-profit institution in Bangladesh to promote reading habits, enlightenment and progressive ideas among students and general public. [1]
The Transsexual Phenomenon is a medical textbook published by American endocrinologist and sexologist Harry Benjamin in 1966 with The Julian Press.The text is notable for its examination of transsexualism not as a psychological issue, but rather as a somatic disorder that should be treated through medicine.
"Women in Qathafi's Green Book," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, December 1983. "Animal Liberation: A New Perspective in Ethics" (Bengali), Philosophy and Progress, Dhaka University, July 1984. "Moral Crisis in Bangladesh" (Bengali), Bangladesh Darshan Patrika (Bangladesh Journal of Philosophy), 1985.
The directorate is under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs [4] The government of Bangladesh provided the library with air conditioning in 1978, under the government's five-year plan. In 2008 the library was without electricity for about a month because of the Dhaka Electric Supply Company and the Public Works Department refused to fix it. [ 6 ]
Rounaq Jahan (Bengali: রওনক জাহান; born 2 March 1944) is a Bangladeshi political scientist, feminist leader and author. [3] A former faculty of the University of Dhaka, Jahan teaches and researches at the Columbia University since 1990. [4]
In January 2014, Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine was published. The magazine is named Roopbaan after a Bengali folk character who represents the power of love. [60] Since 2014, every year at the beginning of the Bengali new year on 14 April, a Pride event called Rainbow Rally had been organised in Dhaka. After threats, the 2016 event had to be ...
Janice G. Raymond (born January 24, 1943) [citation needed] is an American lesbian radical feminist and professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.