Before We Were Trans
A New History of Gender
(Sprache: Englisch)
A globe-spanning, different and vital new history of gender.
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A globe-spanning, different and vital new history of gender.
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One of History Today's Best Books of 2022'I felt exquisitely anchored reading this wonderful book' Juno Roche
'A thoughtful, fun, and refreshingly readable romp through the history of gender variance' Susan Stryker
'A searing, reflexive read . . . that needs to be in everyone's hands expeditiously' Paula Akpan
Across the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with stable, binary, uncomplicated gender identities. As a result, these stories tend to be recent, binary, stereotyped, medicalised and white.
Before We Were Trans is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture, feminism and politics - to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the stories of people across the globe whose experience of gender has been transgressive, or not characterised by stability or binary categories.
Transporting us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to North America, the stories this book tells leave questions and resist conclusions. They are fraught with ambiguity, and defy modern Western terminology and categories - not least the category of 'trans' itself. But telling them provides a history that reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written.
Before We Were Trans is a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity.
Autoren-Porträt von Kit Heyam
Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer who has worked with organisations across the UK. They have been committed to queer history since their teens, when they found the sense of community they were lacking by identifying with queer figures from the past, and their first book, The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697: A Literary Transformation of History, was the first account of how fourteenth-century English king Edward II acquired his queer reputation. They live in Leeds with their partner Alex.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kit Heyam
- 2022, 352 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN-10: 1529377757
- ISBN-13: 9781529377750
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This book, beautifully researched and astutely written, feels so prescient in this time in which our trans identities are being aggressively challenged as if we are a contemporary aberration. Iterations of transness have been here for as long as we have been walking, breathing, and loving, we have constantly explored the spaces of gender. I felt exquisitely anchored reading this wonderful book Juno Roche
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