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 locates transmisogyny in colonial statecraft, racial ordering, policing, sex work, and global histories of transfeminized people.

Shon Faye argues that trans justice is inseparable from healthcare, housing, work, sex work, prison, migration, class, and social justice.

This community resource collects trans-authored and trans-centered guidance on health, law, culture, history, family, sexuality, and life course issues.

stef m. shuster studies how clinicians learn to treat gender and how authority, uncertainty, and gatekeeping shape trans medicine.

This anthology joins transgender studies with Marxist theory to analyze capitalism, social reproduction, labor, embodiment, and liberation.

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

Legacy Russell treats the glitch as a strategy for escaping normative bodies, binary gender, and platform legibility, linking queer, Black, and digital art practices.

Hil Malatino rethinks care labor, mutual aid, exhaustion, and survival from the standpoint of trans communities.

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 studies how families, schools, medicine, and law make transgender childhood intelligible in the twenty-first century.

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 offers a concise history of transgender movements in the United States from mid-twentieth-century organizing to contemporary politics.

This anthology examines the paradoxes of trans visibility in art, museums, media, performance, and cultural production.

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’s memoir examines violence, trauma, forgiveness, and becoming a man from a trans masculine perspective.

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.