Trans America. Barry Reay
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‘Trans America places the recent conversation about trans issues in its historical context, in impressive depth. Sweeping across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Barry Reay provides an accessible yet comprehensive guide to the important people, places, and trends, in the US and beyond – ideal for anyone who wants to understand what came before the “Transgender Tipping Point”.’
Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir
‘The richly varied nature of the current trans movement is so beautifully explored and uncovered in Barry Reay’s new book. A pleasure to read.’
Fayette Hauser of The Cockettes
‘This is an admirable contribution to trans history by a highly respected scholar. It is a story of shifting categorizations, often highly medicalized and limiting, but above all a narrative of agency as trans people pushed definitions to the limit, bent them, and broke them, and increasingly spoke for themselves in a powerful, if not always singular, voice. It’s a major achievement and deserves to become a classic.’
Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University
‘This book is of very high quality. Reay is a major scholar in the field and writes with great authority and assurance.’
Thomas Laqueur, University of California at Berkeley
Trans America
A Counter-History
Barry Reay
polity
Copyright © Barry Reay 2020
The right of Barry Reay to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in 2020 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1182-2
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Reay, Barry, author.
Title: Trans America : a counter-history / Barry Reay.
Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A history of trans before the “trans moment”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019043752 (print) | LCCN 2019043753 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509511785 | ISBN 9781509511792 (pb) | ISBN 9781509511822 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Transgender people--United States--History. | Gender identity--United States--History.
Classification: LCC HQ77.95.U6 R43 2020 (print) | LCC HQ77.95.U6 (ebook) | DDC 305.3--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019043752 LC ebook record available at