Transgender History, Second Edition: The Roots Of Today's Revolution
by Susan Stryker /
2017 / English / EPUB
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A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender
history, with a new introduction and updated material
throughout
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.
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.
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.