Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

By Susan Stryker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158005689X
• ISBN13: 9781580056892
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Required Reading

The content and information here is absolutely necessary for young queers to study and learn; the reason for most inter-community issues today is because so many have forgotten our history. As a trans woman, this was so important to me to stop and take the time to study, and I think that the same can be said for any other queer person. 10/10