Transgender history : the roots of today's revolution

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781580056908
ISBN: 1580056903
ISBN: 9781580056908
ISBN: 158005689X
ISBN: 9781580056892
Physical Description: xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
regular print
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Seal Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revised edition of the author's Transgender history, ©2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Contexts, concepts, and terms -- A hundred-plus years of transgender history -- Trans liberation -- The difficult decades -- The millennial wave -- The tipping point?.