Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender - Couverture rigide

Heyam Ph.D, Dr. Kit

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1541603087 ISBN 13 : 9781541603080

Editeur : Seal Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.  

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer who has worked with organizations across the United Kingdom. They live in Leeds, UK, with their partner Alex.  

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seal Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1541603087
• ISBN 13: 9781541603080
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible