Transgender History - The Library of the Uncommons

Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2017 by Seal Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-58005-689-2

(1 review)

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.

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lampsofgold reviewed Transgender History by Susan Stryker

We must know our history when it's under attack

5 stars

This edition may be six years old and the first over a decade, but turning the pages you'll feel as if you're reading today's news; the most valuable lesson Dr. Stryker gives is that everything old is new again as wave after wave of attempts at assimilation, backlash, resistance, and intracommunity fights alternately erode and push forward transgender rights and liberation.

If there's a weakness to this history its of the early gap in transmasculine stories, partly due to (as explained in the book) transmasculine communities largely overlapping with lesbian communities and not separating until the mid 20th century.