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.

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.

A 50-essay map of trans studies after its first reader, tracing how race, migration, disability, state power, and local histories unsettle universal accounts of gender.

Fifty texts map transgender studies as a struggle over who can produce knowledge about gender, bodies, institutions, and the limits of English-language scholarship.

A social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States, tracing how trans people and institutions reshaped ideas of sex, gender, and care.