Although I try to tell that story in an expansive and inclusive way, what I have to say is unavoidably informed by my own involvement in transgender social movements, by my other life experiences, and by the particular ways that I consider myself to be transgender. As a transsexual woman I’ve also been a participant in making that history, along with multitudes of other people. Piecing together this story of trans history in the United States was a big focus of my professional life as a historian for nearly twenty years. The text of the first edition has therefore been updated throughout-particularly in the first chapter-and a new chapter has been added at the end. And although this book bears the same title as the previous edition first published in 2008, the revisions needed for this second edition to adequately address the remarkable changes of the past decade are extensive enough that the second edition is a substantially new book.
She won a Lambda Literary Award for the anthology The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge 2006), and an Emmy Award for the documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (Frameline/ITVS 2005).ALTHOUGH THE TITLE of this book is simply Transgender History, the subject is both narrower and broader-narrower in that it is primarily a history of the transgender movement in the United States, concentrating mostly on the years after World War II, and broader in that transgender, once a very expansive term, now fails to fully capture the complexity of contemporary gender. She is the author of many articles and several books on transgender and queer topics.
Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, as well as Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona.
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. 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.
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