The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.
Tag: race
Black Trans Feminism
Rethinking blackness, transness, and black feminism in a more radical, and freeing, way.
Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s
Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood
The rise of sexual science, in addition to creating new forms of stigma, also provided the imaginative resources for articulating new modes of resistance.
Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.
Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires
A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.
Histories of the Transgender Child
Challenging the idea that today’s trans kids are a brand new generation.