Trans StudiesBooks

Kit Heyam challenges modern, white, medicalized origin stories of gender variance while demonstrating how to write trans history without imposing definitive identities on people in the past.

Jen Manion reconstructs the lives called “female husbands” in Britain and the United States, asking how marriage, labor, class, and the press produced gender.

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.

This second reader documents the expansion of transgender studies into race, disability, migration, postcolonial critique, embodiment, and media.

This reader gathers foundational texts that helped consolidate transgender studies as a field across feminism, queer theory, medicine, law, and history.

Joanne Meyerowitz writes a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States.