How, when, and why left-leaning Latin American governments responded to the demands of feminist, women’s, and LGBT movements.
Tag: gender identity
“Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston
One 1771 advertisement sought the recapture of an enslaved person known by two names: Cato and Miss Betty Cooper.
The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa
In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.
CFP: Transgender Histories
How might historians make sense of trans in past tenses?
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