Female Husbands

Name: Female Husbands
ISBN: 9781108718271

Jen Manion reconstructs the history of people assigned female who lived as men and married women in Britain and the United States.

Trans Studies Queer Theory Historical Context Marriage Critique Gender Diversity

📝 Book Review & Summary

This book belongs in FemRes because it places trans life, queer politics, and feminist questions on the same map instead of treating trans experience as a “special issue” outside feminism. For readers, it helps explain how gender systems work through medicine, law, family, race, class, colonialism, media visibility, and everyday care. It makes legal records, newspapers, marriage, labor, and public scandal readable as sources for gender variance before contemporary identity terms.

It is especially useful alongside FemRes topics on Trans Feminism, Queer Theory, Bodily Autonomy, Gender Diversity, Intersectional Feminism, and Social Movements.

Publication Info

Author: Jen Manion

Published: March 26, 2020

ISBN: 9781108718271

Language: English

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