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Summary:

This is the first introductory text/reader for trans, transgender, or trans* studies at all levels, from first year to graduate coursework. It can be used in programs and courses ranging from major courses to electives in LGBT/queer studies, feminist/gender studies, and other allied disciplines.
"This is the first introductory textbook intended for transgender/trans studies at the undergraduate level. The book can also be used for related courses in LGBTQ, queer, and gender/feminist studies. It encompasses and connects global contexts, intersecting identities, historic and contemporary issues, literature, history, politics, art, and culture."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Sex and gender: stories and definitions
• Sexual orientation: stories and definitions
• Modern sexology: the science of objectification, or the science of empowerment?
• Direct action, collective histories, and collective activism: what a riot!
• Navigating binary spaces: bathrooms, schools, sports
• navigating government documents, work, and healthcare: I'll need to see some I.D. with that
• Global gender diversity throughout the ages: we have always been with you
• Four historical figures who cross-dressed: the adventurer, the ambassador, the surgeon, and the seamstress
• Cross-dressing and political protest: parasols and pitchforks
• Gender diversity in artifacts, art, icons, and legends from antiquity to the Middle Ages: classically trans
• Trans literature, performing arts, music, and visual arts: the art of resistance, the art of empowerment
• The importance of archives: hearing our own voices.

Author/Creator:

Haefele-Thomas, Ardel , author

Contributors:

Combs, Thatcher , contributor

Rains, Cameron , illustrator

Stryker, Susan , writer of foreword

Clifford, Jo, 1950- , writer of introduction

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Introduction to transgender studies [by Haefele-Thomas, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Introduction to transgender studies [by Haefele-Thomas, A.] (New York, NY : Harrington Park Press, [2019] — ISBN 9781939594273; LCCN 2018035468; OCLC Number 1035428003)

Subjects:

Gender nonconformity — Study and teaching

Transsexualism

Transgender people

Transsexuals

Gender nonconformity

Study skills

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 13, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 477 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ77.9 .T496 2019eeb

ISBNs:

9781939594280 (electronic book)
1939594286 (electronic book)
9781939594273 (paperback) [Invalid]
1939594278 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018037860

OCLC Numbers:

1048658263