Jen Manion: Female Husbands (2020, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations)
320 pages
English language
Published Dec. 16, 2020 by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.
Jen Manion offers an insightful exploration into the forgotten history of British and American people assigned female at birth who lived and loved as men. The book explores how their identities were often only publicly known through divorce proceedings, and how the press came to know them as “female husbands”. An insightful journey into the intersections of trans identity, women’s rights, and sapphic history.
The only reason why I'm giving it 4.5 not 5 stars is because I think the analysis near the end was a little thin. I would have liked to hear more of the author's synthesis in relation to 20th century trans movements and anti-trans backlash in the conclusion
