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.

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. Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Womens Studies, as well as the former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughoutĬovering 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. Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, is founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, and co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria.

Transgender History by Susan Stryker