Trans America: A Counter-History

by Barry Reay

Book Overview

Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of trans visibility in the 1960s and early 1970s faced a vehement backlash right at the time that trans, in the form of what was then termed transvestism and transsexuality, seemed to be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509511792
• ISBN13: 9781509511792
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"