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Before We Were Trans

by Dr. Kit Heyam
Dr. Kit Heyam
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A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity 
Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives.

Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures. 
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Publisher: Hachette Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781668612675
  • File size: 231588 KB
  • Release date: September 13, 2022
  • Duration: 08:02:28

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781668612675
  • File size: 231619 KB
  • Release date: September 13, 2022
  • Duration: 08:06:26
  • Number of parts: 8
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LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction) History Sociology Nonfiction

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English

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity 
Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives.

Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures. 
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LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction) History Sociology Nonfiction