Transgender: a reference handbook

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This book is a crucial resource for readers who are investigating trans issues. It includes writings from some of the most recognized names in trans writing, history, and activism in the world, and approaches its subject from a deeply historical background, acknowledging the intersection of identities throughout time. Resources for further study, including profiles, data and documents, and a chronology of transgender history are also provided.

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Full title :Transgender : a reference handbook / Aaron Devor and Ardel Haefele-Thomas.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):ABC-Clio
Place of Publication:Santa Barbara, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 364 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781440856914, 1440856915
oclc:on1057733337
LC Classification:HQ77.9
Dewey Decimal:306.76/8

1. Background and history. Introduction ; Terminology ; From the ancients to the 1700s : recognition of gender diversity ; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century sexology ; The 1890s to the 1940s : popular culture ; The 1950s : underground trans culture ; Developments from the 1950s to the 1970s ; The 1970s ; The 1980s : AIDS and the trans community ; The 1990s : the power of internet access ; The twenty-first century : global changes ; References -- 2. Problems, controversies, and solutions. Introduction ; Transgender terminology ; Is gender identity the same as sexual orientation? Is trans a disease or a natural variation? ; Trans as an innate condtion ; Treatment issues ; The need for trans-inclusive clinics and hospitals : the case of Robert Eads (1945-1999) ; Educational access for trans, non-binary, and two-spirit students ; Sports rules and access for trans, non-binary, and two-spirit people ; People in institutions ; Legal issues ; References --

3. Perspectives. Introduction ; Sixty years of transgender culture and care in the Netherlands / Alex Bakker ; The tortuous path to creative liberation / Jo Clifford ; An accidental activist / Dallas Denny ; Transgender and Jewish / Jo…

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Gender nonconformity Ouvrages de référence POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cul… Reference works SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Transgender people Transgender people -- Identity transgenderism Transgenres Transgenres -- Identité Transgenrisme Transsexualism