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Transgender History, Third Edition
A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow's
Description
The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era
Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today’s gender revolution. Susan Stryker’s sweeping, intersectional account charts more than a century of history, showing how rising acceptance in the 1960s and 2010s was met with waves of bigotry and intolerance that began in the ’70s and continue today.
Through her explanation of central concepts and terms, informative sidebars, and brief biographies of trans pioneers, Stryker reminds readers of one crucial truth: Transgender people have always been here. In good times and bad, they’ve built supportive and expansive communities, battled for freedom, and transformed American culture and society in the process.
Now completely revised and updated, including a longer, global history and a timely chronicle of the latest wave of anti-trans backlash, Transgender History remains both a vital resource and a powerful testament to the enduring legacy of trans lives.
Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today’s gender revolution. Susan Stryker’s sweeping, intersectional account charts more than a century of history, showing how rising acceptance in the 1960s and 2010s was met with waves of bigotry and intolerance that began in the ’70s and continue today.
Through her explanation of central concepts and terms, informative sidebars, and brief biographies of trans pioneers, Stryker reminds readers of one crucial truth: Transgender people have always been here. In good times and bad, they’ve built supportive and expansive communities, battled for freedom, and transformed American culture and society in the process.
Now completely revised and updated, including a longer, global history and a timely chronicle of the latest wave of anti-trans backlash, Transgender History remains both a vital resource and a powerful testament to the enduring legacy of trans lives.
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Praise
“Susan Stryker’s Transgender History has long been a touchstone for those of us seeking to understand where we come from and how we move forward. With this new edition, Susan reaches further back in time and brings us powerfully into the present, reminding us that our lives are part of a vast continuum of struggle, brilliance, and resilience. Her work illuminates the complexities of gender and the stakes of our current moment, while offering trans people and our allies a roadmap for imagining a freer future. This book is both history and lifeline, a resource I return to again and again with deep gratitude.”
—Laverne Cox
“Transgender History is an essential text in the field of queer history, and Susan Stryker is as much a crucial figure in that history as she is a preeminent documenter of it.”
—Hugh Ryan, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer
"This timely and relevant book should be required reading."
—Portland Book Review
"An invaluable text for anyone who wants to better understand evolving concepts of gender. Essential."
—CHOICE
"Ground-breaking and all-around excellent"
—Autostraddle
"A lively introduction to transgender history and activism in the US. Highly readable and highly recommended."
—Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed
"A powerful combination of lucid prose and theoretical sophistication."
—Paisley Currah, founding coeditor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly