A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
An accessible, bold new vision for trans feminism's intersectional and global future
Jules Gill-Peterson is one of the most original thinkers on gender of the past decade; now in this beautifully written and argued book, she makes her compelling vision accessible to everyone-- Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
This is a sharply argued work by a brilliant thinker. By placing current the familiar and current political attack on trans femininity in Europe and North America within a much broader global and historical context, this text provides us with a rigorous and scholarly understanding of the origins and rationale of such violence. It educated and challenged me and it will become a vital contribution to political thought and organising around gender. -- Shon Faye, author of The Transgender Issue
In Jules Gill-Peterson's provocative and generative framing, trans misogyny is not a minoritizing term for describing the disparagement of femininity in trans women; it is a ubiquitous, infrastructural pressure that effects everyone to some degree, informing the hierarchy of lives deemed worth living. Details inside. -- Susan Stryker, Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
A Short History of Trans Misogyny is a nuanced, wide-ranging, and instantly canonical account from one of our foremost historians. Rich and eloquent with archival detail, this is a trans history that honors the complexity the subject deserves, that exposes the violence of colonial and neocolonial forms of sexualization, and that describes spaces of refusal to this brutality, both within the past and as threads of resistance in our present political landscape. An urgent, propulsive, and profound book." -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox
Reading A Short History of Trans Misogyny, one can feel Gill-Peterson going to lengths to animate and honour the rich lives of the femmes she writes about through archival research. -- Amelia Abraham * Gay Times *
This is a sharply argued work by a brilliant thinker. By placing current the familiar and current political attack on trans femininity in Europe and North America within a much broader global and historical context, this text provides us with a rigorous and scholarly understanding of the origins and rationale of such violence. It educated and challenged me and it will become a vital contribution to political thought and organising around gender. -- Shon Faye, author of The Transgender Issue
In Jules Gill-Peterson's provocative and generative framing, trans misogyny is not a minoritizing term for describing the disparagement of femininity in trans women; it is a ubiquitous, infrastructural pressure that effects everyone to some degree, informing the hierarchy of lives deemed worth living. Details inside. -- Susan Stryker, Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
A Short History of Trans Misogyny is a nuanced, wide-ranging, and instantly canonical account from one of our foremost historians. Rich and eloquent with archival detail, this is a trans history that honors the complexity the subject deserves, that exposes the violence of colonial and neocolonial forms of sexualization, and that describes spaces of refusal to this brutality, both within the past and as threads of resistance in our present political landscape. An urgent, propulsive, and profound book." -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox
Reading A Short History of Trans Misogyny, one can feel Gill-Peterson going to lengths to animate and honour the rich lives of the femmes she writes about through archival research. -- Amelia Abraham * Gay Times *
Jules Gill-Peterson is US-based writer, activist, and the author of the award-winning book Histories of the Transgender Child, published in 2018. Gill-Peterson is a tenured associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, the journal of record in the field. She has earned a public reputation for fiercely advocating for transgender children and women, with interviews in outlets from NPR, to ABC, to New York magazine. She was profiled by the Guardian and published an op-ed on trans kids in the New York Times in 2021. She has also written for the New Inquiry, Jewish Currents, the Baffler, the Funambulist, Parapraxis, and more. Gill-Peterson is the cohost of Outward, Slate's LGBT podcast, and a member of the Death Panel podcast. She is also the narrator of the award-winning documentary Framing Agnes (dir. Chase Joynt, 2022), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781804291566 |
| ISBN 10 | 1804291560 |
| Title | A Short History of Trans Misogyny |
| Author | Jules Gill-Peterson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2024-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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