Transgender History

Langue : English

ISBN :
978-1-58005-689-2
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Transgender History is a non-fiction book by professor Susan Stryker that provides a concise history of transgender people in the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the 2000s. The book was published in 2008 by Seal Press, with a revised edition released in 2017.

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We must know our history when it's under attack

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This edition may be six years old and the first over a decade, but turning the pages you'll feel as if you're reading today's news; the most valuable lesson Dr. Stryker gives is that everything old is new again as wave after wave of attempts at assimilation, backlash, resistance, and intracommunity fights alternately erode and push forward transgender rights and liberation.

If there's a weakness to this history its of the early gap in transmasculine stories, partly due to (as explained in the book) transmasculine communities largely overlapping with lesbian communities and not separating until the mid 20th century.