Paperback, 150 pages
English language
Published April 28, 2008 by Seal Press.
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.
This book focuses on the period from post WW2 to the early 21st century, detailing many of the formative people, organizations, and events involving the trans community. This is a quick but enlightening read, and nicely supplements other histories that look at the LGBTQ+ movement more broadly. Highly recommend
pretty white and institutional but otherwise it's fine ig
