Early modern wonder books included stories of people who changed sex as a surprising natural phenomenon.
Tag: trans history
“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.
Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History
Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?
Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
A Portrait of Jane Crow: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg
Rosalind Rosenberg describes Pauli Murray’s struggles with her gender identity and demonstrates that Murray was truly a person ahead of her time.
CFP: Transgender Histories
How might historians make sense of trans in past tenses?
Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity
How does Egyptology figure into our contemporary debates about gender identity?