Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution / Susan Stryker.

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TextLanguage: English Edition: Second editionDescription: xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:

9781580056892

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DDC classification:

306.768 23 STR

Contents:

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Prologue CHAPTER 1 Contexts, Concepts, and Terms CHAPTER 2 A Hundred-Plus Years of Transgender History CHAPTER 3 Trans Liberation CHAPTER 4 The Difficult Decades CHAPTER 5 The Millennial Wave CHAPTER 6 The Tipping Point? Acknowledgments About the Author Reader’s Guide Further Reading and Resources Sources Index

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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Project book	CUTN Central Library	Non-fiction	306.768 STR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to S.Visalakshmi (20005T)	31/08/2027	55498

Revised edition of the author's Transgender history, c2008.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
CHAPTER 1 Contexts, Concepts, and Terms
CHAPTER 2 A Hundred-Plus Years of Transgender History
CHAPTER 3 Trans Liberation
CHAPTER 4 The Difficult Decades
CHAPTER 5 The Millennial Wave
CHAPTER 6 The Tipping Point?
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Reader’s Guide
Further Reading and Resources
Sources
Index

"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"--

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

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