Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Susan Stryker

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Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Susan Stryker

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A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990, the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s.

Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.

About the Author

Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, is founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution, and co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria.

Critical Reviews

"This timely and relevant book should be required reading."--Portland Book Review

"An invaluable text for anyone who wants to better understand evolving concepts of gender. Essential."--CHOICE

"Ground-breaking and all-around excellent"--Autostraddle

Publishing Information

Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Pub date: 2017-11-07
Length: 320 pages

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