Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution /
Stryker, Susan,
Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution / Susan Stryker. - Second edition. - xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"--
9781580056892
Gender nonconformity
Gender identity
Transgender people--History.--History.--History.
306.768 / STR
Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution / Susan Stryker. - Second edition. - xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"--
9781580056892
Gender nonconformity
Gender identity
Transgender people--History.--History.--History.
306.768 / STR