Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries is designed as an introductory textbook for undergraduate courses in this rapidly growing field.
Tag: trans
Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive
As historians know, the archive is ruthless in preserving categories over time.
Trans America: A Counter-History
Despite the prominence of what is now called trans in contemporary culture, there is a shortage of comprehensive trans histories.
Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories
Sex in the Archives is an experiment in writing an American sexual history that refuses the confines of identity in sexuality studies.
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.
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.