Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 158005689X ISBN13: 9781580056892 Release Date: November 2017 Publisher: Seal Press (CA) Length: 320 Pages Weight: 0.60 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2" 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. T