Trans FeminismBooks

A provocative and unflinching examination of reactionary strands within feminism that work against liberation. Lewis traces two centuries of 'enemy feminisms' from imperial feminists to contemporary TERFs, revealing how feminist rhetoric can be weaponized to reinforce rather than dismantle systems of oppression.

Jules Gill-Peterson traces how colonial rule, racialized policing, labor, and public space shaped modern trans misogyny - and how trans-feminized people resisted it.

Shon Faye places trans politics in Britain within healthcare, housing, labor, class, and punitive systems, making material life central to trans justice.

Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, this community resource brings trans-authored knowledge across health, law, family, and everyday life while naming its North American limits.

Sociologist stef m. shuster traces trans medicine’s history and clinical practice, asking how authority forms under uncertainty and shapes access to gender-affirming care.

Fourteen essays ask how trans life reshapes Marxist accounts of work, transition, care, class, and social reproduction - and where this deliberately diverse anthology leaves its questions unresolved.

A ruthless dissection of the trans-cis divide, reimagining the nuclear family through the wreckage of gender.

Legacy Russell reads the glitch as a refusal of gendered and racialized systems of bodily classification, while asking what digital art can open - and what platforms still capture.

Hil Malatino reframes care through trans mutual aid, burnout, medical systems, and the unequal labor that holds community together.

Starting from trans airport screening and disability justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock argues for design led by affected communities, placing benefit, ownership, and accountability above expert good intentions.

Jules Gill-Peterson uncovers twentieth-century histories of transgender children and the medical, racial, and political systems around them.

Tey Meadow’s ethnography follows how trans children, families, clinics, and schools negotiate identity, care, and institutional recognition.

Through work on Sir Lady Java, Black trans women’s documentation, archives, and art, this anthology asks when visibility enables recognition and when it subjects trans lives to dominant norms.

From slavery, gynecological medicine, fugitivity, and public memory, C. Riley Snorton argues that blackness and transness are not parallel histories that later intersect but categories produced together in the United States.

Susan Stryker’s 2017 second edition traces U.S. trans communities and movements from the postwar era through the 2000s, showing how political language and coalitions change over time.

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Contemporary queen of memoir-theory fusion Maggie Nelson turns her lens on identity, desire, and family. This instant classic recounts Nelson's relationship with her partner, artist Harry Dodge. Through intimate documentation of family life and pregnancy, Nelson presents a complex portrait of modern queer motherhood with blurred boundaries.

Thomas Page McBee links childhood abuse, a near-fatal mugging and transition to ask how masculinity inherits violence - and how care, accountability and forgiveness might change it.

A transgender rights activist's autobiographical work that explores the multiple meanings of feminine identity through personal growth experiences, challenging mainstream society's rigid perceptions of authenticity and femininity.

Halberstam challenges success standards in heteronormative capitalist society, exploring the productive potential of failure as a form of resistance. Through analysis of popular culture and queer theory, the author proposes 'low theory' as a mode of thinking and writing, redefining failure not as deficiency but as a strategy for subverting mainstream values.

A. Revathi’s autobiography records gender, family expulsion, labor, survival, and dignity in hijra communities, bringing South Asian trans experience into feminist mapping.

A groundbreaking manifesto of transgender feminism. From the unique perspective of a transgender woman, Serano deeply analyzes the intrinsic connection between transphobia and sexism, revealing society's systematic devaluation and violence against femininity.

This anthology maps transgender civil rights through law, history, public policy, employment, family, healthcare, and movement strategy.

A foundational text of the transgender rights movement, exploring the oppressive nature of gender binaries and advocating for the liberation of all gender expressions.

A groundbreaking work in transgender theory that challenges the binary gender system, explores gender fluidity and performativity, and provides theoretical foundations for non-binary gender identity.