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The Transgender Reader | 
 enlarge | Creators: Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 247237
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 758
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 1.7
ISBN: 041594709X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.768
EAN: 9780415947091
ASIN: 041594709X
Publication Date: May 26, 2006
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Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history stretching back at least to the early 20th century.
Before the First World War, European sexologists began to devise new terminology to describe gender-atypical individuals. By mid-century, feminist scholars had appropriated scientific paradigms that posited a distinction between bodily sex and psychosocial gender, and deployed them in politically radical ways that envisioned greater equality between genders. In the closing years of the last century, an upstart generation of queer theorists further disarticulated the presumed coherence of heteronormative personhood to create a broader awareness of just how diverse gendered identity can be.
The Transgender Reader encompasses all these critical and conceptual developments, gathering roughly fifty influential texts that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experiences of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academic theorists, this volume will be a seminal text for transgender studies and related queer theory.
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 Library, maybe? July 9, 2007
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
It's huge (essential research for papers) but insanely expensive! (I guess if ya can afford SRS, what's a measly hundred bucks, eh. From "Biology = destiny" to "$ = destiny.")
Very cool to have the "canonical" source stuff excerpted in one place but ... well, there's a huge postmodernist stamp all over this volume that minimizes human experience in favor of clever word selection.
Trans is NOT academic anymore than it is psychiatric! The experts have already had their say! In my opinion, this should have featured more autobiographical materials, for balance.
(And, hey, why doesn't anyone look into the intersection of flower-power-"is-that-a-boy-or-girl?" Sixties culture with trans expression during and since then? Is that task up to me? Publishers, are you listening? No, I didn't think so.)
 Transgender (Studies) Reader August 25, 2006
1 out of 33 found this review helpful
The book arrived promptly. It was needed for a course reserve so the prompt service and delivery were greatly appreciated.
The Essential Text for Trans Issues and Theories. July 2, 2006
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
The depth and breadth of the articles included in this compendium are astounding to say the least. In one large volume the authors have included samples of writings representing the theoretical to the practical and the lived experience in a time line from the 19th century through the present. The Reader gives a sense of our shared history from a wide variety of view points which affirms all of our lives. As a transgendered person and college student, I recommend the The Transgender Reader to anyone looking for clues to our hidden culture and the world we struggle in everyday.
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