(Ebook) Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker ISBN 9781580056908, 1580056903

(Ebook) Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker ISBN 9781580056908, 1580056903

A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction & updated material throughoutCovering 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, & events. Chapters cover the transsexual & transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism & social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, & lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990-the era of identity politics & the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; & the gender issues witnessed through the '90s & '00s.Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts & speeches in transgender history & brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs & discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.°°°