Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Synopsis

A globe-spanning, different and vital new history of gender.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 audiobook 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.(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781529377781

Related ISBNs:

9781529377743

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Date of Addition:

11/23/22

Copyrighted By:

Kit Heyam

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Narrated By:

Dr Kit Heyam

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.