Before Gender
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Before We Were Trans
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Author : Dr. Kit Heyam
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Before We Were Trans written by Dr. Kit Heyam and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Social Science categories.
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.
Before Trans
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Author : Rachel Mesch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Before Trans written by Rachel Mesch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“This thoughtful academic treatise . . . explores the lives of three famous gender nonconformists in fin-de-siècle Paris.” —Publishers Weekly Before the term “transgender” existed, there were those who experienced their gender in complex ways. Before Trans examines the lives and writings of Jane Dieulafoy (1850–1916), Rachilde (1860–1953), and Marc de Montifaud (1845–1912), three French writers whose gender expression did not conform to nineteenth-century notions of femininity. Dieulafoy fought alongside her husband in the Franco-Prussian War; later she wrote novels about girls becoming boys and enjoyed being photographed in her signature men's suits. Rachilde became famous in the 1880s for her controversial gender-bending novel Monsieur Vénus, published around the same time that she started using a calling card that read “Rachilde, Man of Letters.” Montifaud turned to erotic writings, for which she was repeatedly charged with "offense to public decency"; she wore tailored men's suits and a short haircut and went by masculine pronouns among certain friends. Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Montifaud established themselves as fixtures in the literary world of fin-de-siècle Paris at the same time as French writers, scientists, and doctors were becoming fascinated with sexuality and sexual difference. Even so, the concept of gender identity as separate from sexual identity did not yet exist. Before Trans explores these three figures' efforts to articulate a sense of selfhood that did not align with the conventional gender roles of their day. Their personal stories provide vital historical context for our own efforts to understand the nature of gender identity. “A fresh and original take on trans history.” —Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure
Gender Before Birth
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Author : Rajani Bhatia
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Gender Before Birth written by Rajani Bhatia and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Social Science categories.
In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an “act of violence against women” and “unethical.” At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor marketed the practice as “family balancing” and defended it with the rhetoric of freedom of choice. In Gender before Birth, Rajani Bhatia takes on the double standard of how similar practices in the West and non-West are divergently named and framed. Bhatia’s extensive fieldwork includes interviews with clinicians, scientists, biomedical service providers, and feminist activists, and her resulting analysis extends both feminist theory on reproduction and feminist science and technology studies. She argues that we are at the beginning of a changing transnational terrain that presents new challenges to theorized inequality in reproduction, demonstrating how the technosciences often get embroiled in colonial gender and racial politics.
Gender And The City Before Modernity
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Author : Lin Foxhall
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-04-17
Gender And The City Before Modernity written by Lin Foxhall and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with History categories.
Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban space Features a wide geographical and methodological range Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity
Trans Historical
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Author : Greta LaFleur
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-15
Trans Historical written by Greta LaFleur and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-15 with Social Science categories.
Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston. Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives—literary texts, trial transcripts, documents, and artifacts—that denaturalize gender as a category. The volume historicizes the many different social lives of sexual differentiation, exploring what gender might have been before modern medicine, the anatomical sciences, and the sedimentation of gender difference into its putatively binary form. The volume's multidisciplinary group of contributors consider how individuals, communities, and states understood and enacted gender as a social experience distinct from the assignment of sex at birth. Alongside historical questions about the meaning of sexual differentiation, Trans Historical also offers a series of diverse meditations on how scholars of the medieval and early modern periods might approach gender nonconformity before the nineteenth-century emergence of the norm and the normal. Contributors: Abdulhamit Arvas, University of Pennsylvania; Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine; M. W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve University; Emma Campbell, Warwick University; Igor H. de Souza, Yale University; Leah DeVun, Rutgers University; Micah James Goodrich, University of Connecticut; Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University; Anna Kłosowska; Greta LaFleur; Scott Larson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University; Robert Mills, University College London; Masha Raskolnikov; Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA.
Life Before Gender
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Author : Nagyunyomi-Sényi Anna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Life Before Gender written by Nagyunyomi-Sényi Anna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Gender Before Birth
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Author : Rajani Bhatia
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Technosciences
Release Date : 2018
Gender Before Birth written by Rajani Bhatia and has been published by Feminist Technosciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
This book breaks new ground on the evolution and present technologies and practices of lifestyle sex selection, builds on and critiques feminist and STS theories of reproduction to develop the new concept of biopopulationism, and engages with the messy politics of sex selection in the United States.
Special Deliveries
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Author : Theresa Hebert
language : en
Publisher: Special Deliveries
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Special Deliveries written by Theresa Hebert and has been published by Special Deliveries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Conception categories.
Before Gender
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Author : Eli Erlick
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2025-05-06
Before Gender written by Eli Erlick and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-06 with Social Science categories.
An expansive exploration of the exciting lives of 30 trans people from 1850-1950 that radically changes everything you’ve been told about transgender history Focusing on 30 influential individuals who are all but unknown today, activist, writer, and educator Eli Erlick highlights how trans people of the past were much more vibrant, creative, and respected than in the popular imagination. These remarkable stories range from romance to rebellion and mystery to murder, all exploring the grit, joy, and survival of trans people before the word gender entered our vocabulary. Together, each narrative provides new insights into the self-determination of transgender figures that will change the world for trans people today. Organized in 4 parts, each section corresponds to today’s controversies over gender identity: Kids features 7 stories of young trans people, including brothers Mark and David Ferrow, who became two of the first children to access transgender medical treatment following overwhelming support from their friends, family, and neighbors. Activists follows 9 influential individuals, like Sally-Tom, a trans woman recently freed from slavery, who won the first known government approval for a legal change of sex, and Gerda von Zobeltitz, a trans countess who instigated a forgotten LGBTQ+ riot 40 years before Stonewall. Workers tracks the lives of 7 figures like snake charmer Elise Marks and florist John Berger, who were forced to hide their trans status to find employment, love, and safety. Athletes highlights 5 competitors, including the world’s greatest female billiards player of the 1910s, trans woman Francis Anderson. Bold and visionary, Erlick’s debut lifts these stories from the depths of the archives to narrate trans lives in a way that has never been attempted before.
Women Before The Bar
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Author : Cornelia Hughes Dayton
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Women Before The Bar written by Cornelia Hughes Dayton and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with History categories.
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution. Using the court records of New Haven, which originally had the most Puritan-dominated legal regime of all the colonies, Dayton argues that Puritanism's insistence on godly behavior and communal modes of disputing initially created unusual opportunities for women's voices to be heard within the legal system. But women's presence in the courts declined significantly over time as Puritan beliefs lost their status as the organizing principles of society, as legal practice began to adhere more closely to English patriarchal models, as the economy became commercialized, and as middle-class families developed an ethic of privacy. By demonstrating that the early eighteenth century was a crucial locus of change in law, economy, and gender ideology, Dayton's findings argue for a reconceptualization of women's status in colonial New England and for a new periodization of women's history.