Transgender History

by Stryker, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781580052245
• ISBN10: 158005224X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-06
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Susan Stryker held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair in women's studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, 2007-08, and currently teaches gender studies at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to Transgender Terms and Concepts	p. 1
A Hundred Years of Transgender History	p. 31
Transgender Liberation	p. 59
The Difficult Decades	p. 91
The Current Wave	p. 121
Reader's Guide	p. 155
Further Reading and Resources	p. 158
Sources	p. 165
Index	p. 175
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