Publications

Where possible I have uploaded open access versions of my articles and reports. Click on the links for more information and/or free PDFs.

Books

Vincent B, Erikainen S and Pearce R (2020) TERF Wars: Feminism and the fight for transgender futures. London: SAGE.

Pearce R, Moon I, Gupta K and Steinberg DL (2019) The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives. Abingdon: Routledge.

Pearce R (2018) Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility. Bristol: Policy Press.

Journal Articles

Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW, White FR, and Hines S (forthcoming) Trans Birth Parents’ Experiences of Domestic Violence: Conditional Affirmation, Cisgenderist Coercion, and the Transformative Potential of Perinatal Care, Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. Accepted for publication.

White FR, Hines S, Pfeffer CA, Pearce R, and Riggs DW (forthcoming) Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy, Body and Society. Accepted for publication.

Pfeffer CA, Hines S, Pearce R, Riggs DW, Ruspini E, and White FR (2023) Medical Uncertainty and Reproduction of the “Normal”: Decision-Making Around Testosterone Therapy in Transgender Pregnancy, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 4 (Article 100297): 1-10.

Pearce R, Erikainen S, and Vincent B (2022) TERF Savaşları: Bir Giriş, Kaos Q+, 10(1): 32-43.

Pearce R (2021) Academic freedom and the paradox of tolerance, Nature Human Behaviour, 5(11): 1461.

Riggs DW, Pfeffer CA, Pearce R, Hines S, and White FR (2021) Trans Conception, Bent Street, 5(1): 16-19.

Riggs DW, Pfeffer CA, Pearce R, Hines S and White FR (2021) Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people negotiating conception: Normative resistance and inventive pragmatism, International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(1-2): 6-17.

Pearce R (2020) A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy, Sociology, 54(4): 806-824.
Note: this article includes extensive discussion of suicide.

Pearce R, Erikainen S, and Vincent B (2020) TERF Wars: An Introduction, The Sociological Review, 68(4): 677-698.

Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR and Ruspini E (2020) Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people’s experiences of pregnancy loss: An international qualitative study, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20, Article 482: 1-9.

Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR and Ruspini E (2019) Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Standards of Care, American Psychologist, 74(8): 912-924.

Pearce R and White FR (2019) Beyond the pregnant man: representing trans pregnancy in A Deal With The Universe, Feminist Media Studies, 19(5): 764-767.

Tzanakou C and Pearce R (2019) Moderate feminism within or against the neoliberal university? The example of Athena SWAN, Gender, Work & Organization, 26(8): 1191-1211.

Pearce R and Lohman K (2019) De/constructing DIY identities in a trans music scene, Sexualities, 22(1-2): 97-113.

Adams N, Pearce R, Veale J, Radix A, Castro D, Sarkar A and Thom KC (2017) Guidance and Ethical Considerations for Undertaking Transgender Health Research and Institutional Review Boards Adjudicating this Research, Transgender Health, 2(1): 165-175.

Pearce R (2012) Inadvertent Praxis: What Can ‘Genderfork’ Tell Us About Trans Feminism?, MP: An Online Feminist Journal, 3(4): 87-129.

Book Chapters

Gupta K and Pearce R (forthcoming) From conflict to collaboration: Solidarity and compromise in trans and women’s movements. In: Connaughton SL and and Pukallus S (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication. London: Routledge.

Pearce R, Hines S, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW, Ruspini E, and White FR (2023) Giving birth as a father: experiences of trans birthing parents. In: J Gill-Peterson (ed) The Conversation on Gender Diversity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Riggs DW, Pearce R, Hines S, Pfeffer C, and White FR (2023) Whiteness in research on men, trans/masculine and non-binary people and reproduction: Two parallel stories. In: R Andreassen, C Lundström, S Keskinen, and SA Tate (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. London: Routledge.

Riggs DW, Hines S, Pearce R, Pfeffer C, and White FR (2023) ‘Spunkles’, Donors, and Fathers: Men, Trans/Masculine, and Non-Binary People’s Accounts of Sperm Donors and Their Relationships to Children. In: F Kelly, D Dempsey, and A Byrt (eds) Donor-Linked Families in the Digital Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Riggs DW, Pfeffer C, White FR, Hines S, and Pearce R (2023) Young men, trans/masculine and non-binary people’s views about pregnancy. In: DW Riggs, JM Ussher, KH Robinson, and S Rosenberg (eds) Trans Reproductive and Sexual Health. Abingdon: Routledge.

Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR and Ruspini E (2023) Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Standards of Care. In: EL Zurbriggen and R Capdevila (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Note: this is a slightly updated reprint of our 2019 article originally published in American Psychologist.

Lohman K and Pearce R (2021) Queering Community Development in DIY punk spaces. In: R Meade and M Shaw (eds) Arts, Culture, and Community Development. Bristol: Policy Press.

Riggs DW, Hines S, Pfeffer C, Pearce R, and White FR (2021) Men transmasculine and non-binary people and midwifery care. In: M Anderson (ed) Midwifery Essentials: Perinatal Mental Health. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Riggs DW, Hines S, Pfeffer C, Pearce R, and White FR (2021) Trans Parenting. In: A O’Reilly (ed) Maternal Theory: Essential Readings, The 2nd Edition. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter.

Dietz C and Pearce R (2020) Depathologising Gender: Vulnerability in Trans Health Law. In: M Thomson, C Dietz and M Travis (eds) A Jurisprudence of the Body. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Pearce R, Gupta K and Moon I (2020) The Many-Voiced Monster: collective determination and the emergence of trans. In: R Pearce, L Moon, K Gupta and DL Steinberg (eds) The Emergence of Trans: Politics, Culture and Everyday Life. Abingdon: Routledge.

Lohman K and Pearce R (2020) DIY identities in a DIY scene: trans music in the UK. In: R Pearce, L Moon, K Gupta and DL Steinberg (eds) The Emergence of Trans: Politics, Culture and Everyday Life. Abingdon: Routledge.

Pearce R (2019) Moving through the world as a woman. In: G Crimmins (ed) Stategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy: Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Pearce R (2019) Trans Temporalities and Non-Linear Ageing. In: A King, K Almack, Y-T Suen and S Westwood (eds) Older LGBT* People: Minding the Knowledge Gaps. Abingdon: Routledge.

Editorials

Lohman K and Pearce R (2024) Living our values in research and practice, Community Development Journal, 59(1), 1-7.

Pearce R and Lohman K (2023) Academia on the Edge, Community Development Journal, 58(3), 363-372.

Lohman K, Pearce R, and Craig G (2023) Learning from the history of Community Development, Community Development Journal, 58(2): 181-187.

Pearce R and Lohman K (2022) Old problems, new forms, Community Development Journal, 57(4): 581-588.

Lohman K and Pearce R (2022) The case for a community development journal, Community Development Journal, 57(3): 391-398.

Pearce R (2022) Editorial 57(2), Community Development Journal, 57(2): 187-191. 

Hines S, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW and White FR (2021) Trans pregnancy: Fertility, reproduction and body autonomy, International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(1-2): 1-5.

Pearce R, Erikainen S, and Vincent B (2020) Afterword: TERF wars in the time of Covid-19, The Sociological Review, 68(4): 882-888.

Pearce R, Steinberg DL and Moon I (2019) Introduction: The Emergence of ‘Trans’, Sexualities, 22(1-2): 3-12.

Book Reviews

Pearce R (2021) Non-binary genders: navigating communities, identities and healthcare, by Ben Vincent, Community Development Journal. Advance publication.

Reports

LGBT Foundation (2022) Trans and Non-Binary Experiences of Maternity Services. Manchester: LGBT Foundation. [co-author]

Trans Learning Partnership (2020) Written evidence submitted by Trans Learning Partnership: Reform of the Gender Recognition Act. London: UK Parliament. [lead author]

Jenkins K and Pearce R (2019) The Gender Recognition Act: a trans-inclusive feminist approach. University of Nottingham Institute for Policy and Engagement.

Pearce R (2017) Certifying Equality? – A critical reflection on Athena SWAN and equality accreditation. Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick.

Pearce R and Lester CN (2016) Gender Recognition – Where Next. UK Trans Info.

Pearce R (2015) Community Development Journal 50th Anniversary Conference: Participant Feedback. CDJ Plus.

Pearce R (2012) Public Launch of Community Development Journal Special Issue on Mental Health and Community Development. CDJ Plus.

Pearce R (2008) Under Construction: Trans Students. National Union of Students.

Zines

New Year’s Resolution: Smash the New Section 28 (2024)

But What Can I Do? How to Fight the Trans Panic (2023, three editions)

smalltime (2023) with wormboys

Moving Through the World as a Woman (2019)

Revolt Zine! #5 (2017) with the Revolt! Collective

Revolt Zine! #4 (2016) with the Revolt! Collective

In Your Face! (2016)

Revolt Zine! #3 (2015) with the Revolt! Collective

Not Right #7 (2014) with Kirsty Lohman and Snowy Snowdon

Revolt Zine! #2 (2014) with the Revolt! Collective

Revolt Zine! #1 (2014) with the Revolt! Collective

Not Right #6 (2013) with Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Holly Cruise, Becca Rothwell

Nine Worlds Geekfest Zine (2013) with Kirsty Lohman and workshop participants

2013 Grrrl Style Now? (2013) with Kirsty Lohman

Not Right #5 (2013) with Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Holly Cruise, Nazia Hussein, Jo McKillop

Not Right #4 (2013) with Kirsty Lohman and Snowy Snowdon

Not Right #3 (2012) with Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Milena Kremakova

Not Right #2 (2012) with Kirsty Lohman and Snowy Snowdon

Not Right #1 (2012) with Emma Beckett, Kirsty Lohman, Snowy Snowdon, Milena Kremakova

PhD Thesis

Pearce R (2016) (Im)possible Patients: Discourses of Trans Health in the UK. Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.

(Note: my book Understanding Trans Health is based upon an edited and updated version of this thesis. However, the material in Chapter 4, Evoking the Field, is largely absent from the book.)

MA Dissertation

Pearce R (2010) Genderforking: Identity, Ambiguity and Diversity Within a Community Blog. Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.