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Before We Were Trans (häftad, eng)
A History Today Book of the Year
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
''A beautiful, brilliant, lively b...
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A History Today Book of the Year
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
''A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, Before We Were Trans invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways, rather than contracting them and policing their borders'' MEG-JOHN BARKER, author of Gender: A Graphic Guide
''Celebrates trans history, whilst acknowledging the reality of what it means to live within our community with joy and kindnessIn-depth research and personal stories tie Before We Were Trans up into a true treat for the mind'' JAMIE WINDUST, author of In Their Shoes
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 identitiesAs 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'' itselfBut 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.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 352 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | John Murray Press |
Utgivningsdatum | 2023-05-25 |
ISBN | 9781529377767 |
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Böcker
- Pocket, 352, Engelska, Hachette UK Distribution, 2023-05-25, 9781529377767
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Pocket
- Antal sidor 352
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Hachette UK Distribution
- Utgivningsdatum 2023-05-25
- ISBN 9781529377767