Description
| Product ID: | 9781580056892 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Transgender History (Second Edition) |
| Subtitle: | The Roots of Today's Revolution |
| Authors: | Author: Susan Stryker |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies, gender groups |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Seal Press |
| Publisher Name: | Seal Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-11-30 |
