First-person narratives from transgender memoirs are excerpted and treatments of transgenderism in popular culture are also discussed.'-Publisher's description. 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. Sidebars highlight quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history, and others will feature brief biographies of key players. Chapters 4 and 5 are broken into the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s, respectively. Chapter 3 focuses on the mid-'70s to 1990-the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years. Chapter 2 addresses trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s. Transgender history Though transgender people have existed for hundreds and even thousands of years according to an article by the HRC, the transgender movement for social change has. Chapter 1 covers the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II.

Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. |a 'Transgender History covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today. |a An introduction to transgender terms and concepts - A hundred years of transgender history - Transgender liberation - The difficult decades - The current wave. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-174) and index.

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