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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Heyam, Kit

Hardcover

General Gender StudiesGeneral World HistoryGLBTQIA Studies

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1541603087
ISBN13: 9781541603080
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: Sep 13 2022
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity 

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 offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures. 

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