Before We Were Trans
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Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam Ph D
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformityToday'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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781541603080 |
| ISBN 10 | 1541603087 |
| Title | Before We Were Trans |
| Author | Kit Heyam |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seal Press (Ca) |
| Year published | 2022-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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