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A Short History of Trans Misogyny

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Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done about it by activists, organisers, and allies? A Short History of Trans Misogyny is the first... Read More
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A Short History of Trans Misogyny

An accessible, bold new vision for trans feminism's intersectional and global future

An accessible, bold new vision for trans feminism’s intersectional and global future

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Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done about it by activists, organisers, and allies?

A Short History of Trans Misogyny is the first book-length study to answer these urgent but long overdue questions. Combining new historical analysis with political and activist accessibility, the book shows why it matters to understand trans misogyny as a specific form of violence with a documentable history.

Ironically, it is through attending to the specificity of trans misogyny that trans women are no longer treated as inevitably tragic figures. They emerge instead as embattled but tenacious, locked in a struggle over the meaning and material stakes of gender, labour, race, and freedom.

The book travels across bustling port cities like New York, New Orleans, London, and Paris, the colonial and military districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i, and the lively travesti communities of Latin America. The book shows how trans femininity has become legible as a fault line of broader global histories, including colonial government, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public spaces, and the line between the formal and informal economy.

This transnational and intersectional approach reinforces that trans women are not isolated social subjects who appear alone; they are, in fact, central to the modern social world.

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ISBN: 9781804291566

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 January 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

Jules Gill-Peterson is US based writer, activist, professor, and the author of the award-winning book Histories of the Transgender Child, published in 2018. Gill-Peterson is a tenured professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, the journal of record in the field. She has earned a public reputation for fiercely advocating for transgender children and women, with contributions to and appearances on NPR’s All Things Considered and On the Media, CNN, CBS, the BBC, and Xtra magazine. She was profiled by the Guardian and published an op-ed on trans kids in The New York Times in March 2021. She is active on Twitter (with over 20K followers) and has written articles on trans politics for Them, Jewish Currents, The New Inquiry, The Lily, The Funambulist,and The Conversation. She is a cohost of the flagship LGBT podcast at Slate, Outward. She is an executive producer, starring opposite Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, and Zackary Drucker as narrator in the feature documentary Framing Agnes (director Chase Joynt), which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2022, where it won the Next Innovator Award and the Next Audience Award.

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