BEFORE WE WERE TRANS A NEW HISTORY OF GENDER

C2022 REPRINT SOFTCOVER SEAL PRESS [HEYAM, KIT] A NEW HISTORY OF GENDER

From Publisher:

Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives.

Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam chronicles expressions of trans experience that are often left out of the historical record. Drawing on their own experience of transition and gender nonbinarism, Heyam reveals that what constitutes a man, a woman, or gender itself has continually been defined, contested, and redefined.

A groundbreaking, radically inclusive trans history, Before We Were Trans reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written--and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.

Product Info

ISBN: 1541605403

ISBN-13: 9781541605404

Publisher: SEAL PRESS

Type: New

Binding: Softcover

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