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    Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution / Susan Stryker.

    • Title:Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution / Susan Stryker.
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    • Author/Creator:Stryker, Susan, author.
    • Published/Created:New York, NY : Seal Press, 2017.
      ©2017
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Gender nonconformity--History.
      Gender identity--History.
      Transgender people--History.
    • Genre/Form:History.
    • Edition:Second edition.
    • Description:xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    • Summary:"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"-- Provided by publisher.
      "A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Revised edition of the author's Transgender history, c2008.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781580056892 paperback
      158005689X paperback
      9781580056908 electronic book
    • Contents:Contexts, concepts, and terms
      A hundred-plus years of transgender history
      Trans liberation
      The difficult decades
      The millennial wave
      The tipping point?
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