Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.

Author: Susan Stryker
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/09/2006
Pages: 768
Weight: 2.83lbs
Size: 10.04h x 7.10w x 1.35d
ISBN: 9780415947091


Award: 2006 Lambda Literary Awards Winner - Transgender


Review Citation(s):
Lambda Book Report 11/01/2006 pg. 16

About the Author

Susan Stryker is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and currently holds a Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sexuality Studies in the History Department at Stanford University. StephenWhittle is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and coordinator of the United Kingdom FTM Network.