Transgender History, Third Edition by Susan Stryker - ISBN: 9781541605886
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A century of trans lives, resilience, and the ongoing fight for freedom.

Transgender History, Third Edition

Resources for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow's

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    28 April 2026

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Summary

The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era

Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today’s gender revolution. Susan Stryker’s sweeping, intersectional account charts more than a century of history, showing how rising acceptance in the 1960s and 2010s was met with waves of bigotr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781541605886
ISBN-10:1541605888
Author:Susan Stryker
Publisher:Basic Books
Imprint:Basic Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:28 April 2026
Weight:320g
Dimensions:208mm x 138mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

“Ground-breaking and all-around excellent.”–Autostraddle
Transgender History is an essential text in the field of queer history, and Susan Stryker is as much a crucial figure in that history as she is a preeminent documenter of it.”–Hugh Ryan, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer
“Susan Stryker’s Transgender History has long been a touchstone for those of us seeking to understand where we come from and how we move forward. With this new edition, Susan reaches further back in time and brings us powerfully into the present, reminding us that our lives are part of a vast continuum of struggle, brilliance, and resilience. Her work illuminates the complexities of gender and the stakes of our current moment, while offering trans people and our allies a roadmap for imagining a freer future. This book is both history and lifeline, a resource I return to again and again with deep gratitude.”–Laverne Cox
“A lively introduction to transgender history and activism in the US. Highly readable and highly recommended.”–Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed
“A powerful combination of lucid prose and theoretical sophistication.”–Paisley Currah, founding coeditor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
“An invaluable text for anyone who wants to better understand evolving concepts of gender. Essential.”–CHOICE
“This timely and relevant book should be required reading.”–Portland Book Review

About The Author

Susan Stryker

Susan Stryker, professor emerita of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona, is founding coeditor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. The director of the TEN:TACLES Initiative (Transgender Educational Network: Theory in Action for Creativity, Liberation, Empowerment, and Service), she currently holds a distinguished visiting appointment at Stanford University’s Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

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