A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam gives inspiring impulses in “Before We Were Trans” into trans* history and how we think about it nowadays. Based on individual case studies, Heyam analyses under which specific instances people and groups were counted to trans* history and which weren’t. The book problematizes not only transphobic attitudes but also for example appropriations of non-European history and/or inter* history by white and/or endo trans* people. Therefore, the book is able to give a nuanced perspective into the past and is also able to continuously reflect this perspective. Even though a few points are repetitive in the last chapters, Heyam is able to write in a very clear, personal and most importantly respectful manner when it comes to historical figures. - TW: Discussions of colonial conquest, war, internalization, forced medical examinations and treatment, inter*-, trans*- and queerphobia (Übersetzung von Jamie - es folgt die Rezension auf Deutsch und dann die englische Verlagsbeschreibung)

/ Kit Heyam bietet in „Before We Were Trans“ inspirierende Impulse zu trans* Geschichte und dazu, wie wir heute darüber nachdenken können. Anhand von einzelnen Fallstudien betrachtet Heyam verschiedene Vorbehalte dahingehend, welche Personen(-gruppen) zur trans* Geschichte gehören und welche nicht. Problematisiert werden damit nicht nur trans*-feindliche Einstellungen, sondern auch bspw. Aneignungen durch weiße und/oder endo trans* Personen von nicht-europäischer Geschichte und/oder von inter* Geschichte. Somit kann das Buch helfen, einen nuancierteren Blick in die Vergangenheit zu werfen und diesen Blick stets zu reflektieren. Auch wenn sich einige Punkte vor allem in den letzten Kapiteln wiederholen, schreibt Heyam dabei sehr flüssig, persönlich und vor allem respektvoll gegenüber historischen Personen.

TW: Besprechung von kolonialistischer Eroberung, Krieg, Internierung, erzwungenen medizinischen Untersuchungen und Behandlungen, Inter*-, Trans*- und Queer-Feindlichkeit (Rezi von Aiden)

Verlagsbeschreibung:

These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with stable, binary, uncomplicated gender identities. As a result, these stories tend to be recent, binary, stereotyped, medicalised and white. Before We Were Trans is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture, feminism and politics - to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the stories of people across the globe whose experience of gender has been transgressive, or not characterised by stability or binary categories.

Transporting us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to North America, the stories this book tells leave questions and resist conclusions. They are fraught with ambiguity, and defy modern Western terminology and categories - not least the category of 'trans' itself. But telling them provides a history that reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written.

Before We Were Trans is a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity.

In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist, Jude Doyle, reunites feminist and trans politics through a common belief: that all people deserve to have the final say about who they are…

When Jude Doyle began his transition in the summer of 2020, he had a very public career as a feminist—winning awards from women’s organizations, writing for women’s magazines, publishing books on “women’s issues.” Then, after a decade in the movement, he had to walk out in front of the public and tell them he had never been a woman at all.

Doyle offers a seldom-heard and much-needed transmasculine perspective on feminist subjects, drawing together strands of intersectional feminist theory and queer and trans politics to show that all their struggles are the same struggle: The fight for gender-marginalized people to maintain autonomy and full selfhood in a patriarchy that is always eager to hollow us out and use us to further its own agenda.

DILF offers a strong rebuke to trans-exclusionary feminisms that seek to drive a wedge between gender-marginalized communities. Using interviews, critical analysis, and Doyle’s own personal experience, DILF proves that feminism is a vital and necessary tool for breaking free of patriarchal control, whoever you are.

“I found it a humane, accessible and (from a transmasc feminist perspective) deeply relatable read. I think it’s a must-read for any trans person grappling with their relationship to feminism, and an essential building block in our liberated transfeminist future.” — Kit Heyam, author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

“DILF thoroughly pulled apart several built-in assumptions I knew I had about the world, several I didn’t know I had about the world, and still more I didn’t even begin to imagine I had about our ever fractious society. Jude Doyle is an incredibly incisive writer who is also quite funny, which is a rare combination.” — Emily St. James, author of Woodworking

The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex

Using a range of intersex variations, this innovative book introduces readers to the diversity of biological sex and its relationship to gender identity and the societal impact this has. Written by a leading intersex activist and an esteemed biological sciences scholar, it balances authority with inclusivity to create an important educational tool.

Das Buch ist von der Intersex-Aktivist_in Hida Viloria und der ehemaligen Biologieprofessorin Maria Nieto, die ihre wissenschaftlichen Kenntnisse für Bildungszwecke einsetzt und liest sich sehr gut.

Weitere Bücher sowie Buttons und Aufkleber zu Intergeschlechtlichkeit, findet Ihr hier.

A queer history of Solidarity, Coalition and Chaos.

Shoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ pioneers of solidarity and coalition. Offering a new global look at forgotten moments when those from marginalised backgrounds stood shoulder to shoulder to build a better future for all.

Through astounding research and fascinating storytelling, author and journalist Jake Hall takes us into the world of these trailblazers, bringing their tales to life and exploring both the inexplicable joys and brutal realities in their fights for justice.

Spanning movements from the Black Panthers coalition with the Gay Liberation Front in the US to queer solidarity groups in Argentina, Spain, France and Germany; from trans fights for abortion rights to the Pride support for miners strikes in the UK, Shoulder to Shoulder is for anyone who is hungry for a fresh perspective on queer history.

Weitere Werke von und mit Jake Hall gibt es hier.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Fighting a Working-class War

Buidling a Rainbow Coalition

Making Mischief

No TERFs, No SWERFs

Piss on Pity

Dispatches from the AIDS Crisis

Pits and Perverts

No fats, No Femmes

Treatment Access Campaign

No Planet, No Future

Against Borders

Trans Fights for Reproductive Rights

Hot Strike Summer

Towards Liberation

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Credits

On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

Using bisexual and non-binary gender experiences as a starting point, this truly original and insightful book encourages reflection on how we view and understand the world we live in and how we all bend, blur, or break society's binary codes.

Ein lang überfälliges Buch. Es beginnt damit, dass weder sexuelle Orientierung noch Geschlechtsidentität binär sind und geht über zu Beziehungen, zu Körpern, Gefühlen und unserem Denken.

Weitere Bücher der Autor*innen gibt es hier.

Lost Stories from TRANS History 1850–1950

Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.

Highlighting influential individuals from 1850 to 1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares thirty remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and mystery to murder. These narratives chronicle the grit, joy and survival of trans people long before gender became an everyday term.

Organised into four parts, paralleling today's controversies over gender identity - kids, activists, workers and athletes - Before Gender introduces figures whose forgotten stories transform the discussion. These ground-breaking histories include two of the first teens to access gender-affirming medical treatment, a countess who instigated an LGBTQ+ riot forty years before Stonewall and the greatest female billiards player of the 1910s.

Bold and visionary, Erlick's debut uncovers these lost stories from the depths of the archives to narrate trans lives in a way that has never been attempted before.

Reviews:

'Before Gender is at once a vital weapon in the fight against the denial of trans history and a heart-stopping collection of human stories. I'm thrilled to know the people in its pages and I already know they will stay with me.'
Kit Heyam, author of Before We Were Trans

'An eye-opening read, crisply written, on such a timely topic.'
Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

'Not only have trans people always existed; we have always sought ways to live fuller and more authentic lives. Before Gender chronicles trans people from 1850 to 1950 growing up, working, falling in love, getting in trouble, playing sports and building community as we've always done and always will do.'
Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer and Breathe

About the Author:

Eli Erlick is an internationally acclaimed activist, author and educator. In 2011, she founded Trans Student Educational Resources (TSER), an organisation dedicated to transforming the educational environment for trans students. Since then, she has been at the forefront of social justice issues through her research, organising and cultural criticism. Erlick's work and writing have been featured in hundreds of outlets, including the New York Times, Time Magazine and the Washington Post. She lives in New York City, where she continues to fight for trans liberation.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: rewriting the narrative

THE KIDS
The brothers: Mark and David Ferrow
The outlaw: Effie Smith
The singer: Masoud El Amaratly
The shoemaker: Ray Leonard
The lover: Mabel Stanley
The girl bandit: Emma Heinrich
The horse thief: Willie Ray

THE ACTIVISTS
The freed woman: Sally-Tom
The countess: Gerda von Zobeltitz
The petitioner: Carl Crawford
The runaway: Mollie Wilson
The healer: Muksamse'lapli
The pacifist: Sadie Acosta
The community leader: Georgia Black
The guardian: Okiyo
The professor: Maude Milbourne

THE WORKERS
The maid: Josephine Robinson
The cobra woman: Elise Marks
The dancer: Albín Pleva
The florist: John Berger
The butler: Alfred Grouard
The craftswoman: Ann Storcy
The boy-of-all-work: Frank Williams

THE ATHLETES
The billiardist: Frances Anderson
The matador: Agustín Rodríguez
The pentathlete: Stefan Pekar
The wrestler: Bill Winters
The teammates: Léon Caurla and Pierre Brésolles

Conclusion: a new gender history
Index

A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow's

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 bigotry and intolerance that began in the ’70s and continue today.

Through her explanation of central concepts and terms, informative sidebars, and brief biographies of trans pioneers, Stryker reminds readers of one crucial truth: Transgender people have always been here. In good times and bad, they’ve built supportive and expansive communities, battled for freedom, and transformed American culture and society in the process.

Now completely revised and updated, including a longer, global history and a timely chronicle of the latest wave of anti-trans backlash, Transgender History remains both a vital resource and a powerful testament to the enduring legacy of trans lives.

How the intersex liberation movement exposed medical harms and became an inspiration to rethink sex and gender

HERMAPHRODITE LOGIC is a bold examination of intersex liberation. Juliana Gleeson reveals how a movement challenged systemic medical abuses to reshape our understanding of sex. Blending philosophical insights and personal testimonies, Gleeson argues that intersex people have been harmed not just for therapeutic reasons but to ease professional and parental anxieties.

Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary. They challenge the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

Leicht verständlich und kurz zusammengefasst schreibt Alok Vaid-Menon aus eigener Erfahrung heraus, aber auch mit Bezug auf die menschliche Geschichte, warum wir die Geschlechterbinarität überwinden müssen und geht dabei auf viele Fragen und Kritiken ein, die sich nicht-binäre und nicht-genderkonforme Menschen häufig anhören müssen.

Autor und Biologe Josh L. Davis stellt in diesem reich illustrierten Buch eine ganze Bandbreite an queeren Verhaltensweisen von Tieren und Pflanzen vor, von gleichgeschlechtlichem Sex und Partnerschaften von Affen, Schwänen oder Schafen hin zu den vielfältigen, fluiden Geschlechtern von Clownsfischen, Schmetterlingen oder Pflanzen. Sein Hauptanliegen ist dabei, die Komplexität und Diversität von Geschlecht, Sexualverhalten und Elternschaft in der Natur zu veranschaulichen und vereinfachten Vorstellungen "natürlicher" Verhaltensweisen und Körpern (heterosexuell, binärgeschlechtlich, etc.) fundierte Beobachtungen und Fakten entgegenzusetzen. Es geht ausdrücklich nicht darum, Queerness in Menschen und Tieren miteinander zu vergleichen, sondern die Diversität der Tierwelt für sich allein wertzuschätzen.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

Spannender geschichtliche Abhandlungen über Trans*feindlichkeiten, die trotz mancher Wiederholungen im Text, sehr lesenswert sind. Verlagsbeschreibung:

There is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite reprisal—which would make violence unstoppable—then the psychology of that violence had to arise at a certain place and time. The trans panic had to be invented.

Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson takes us from the bustling port cities of New York and New Orleans to the streets of London and Paris in search of the emergence of modern trans misogyny. She connects the colonial and military districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to the lively travesti communities of Latin America, where state violence has stamped a trans label on vastly different ways of life. Weaving together the stories of historical figures in a richly detailed narrative, the book shows how trans femininity emerged under colonial governments, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public spaces, and the area between the formal and informal economy.

A Short History of Trans Misogyny is the first book to explain why trans women are burdened by such a weight of injustice and hatred.

Bis Donnerstag, den 19.2.2026 preislich reduziert wgen kleinem Knick im oberen Coverrand und den ersten 3 Seiten. (Falls es nicht kurzfristig weggeht, schicke ich es zurück.)

Preislich reduziert wegen kleinem Knick am unteren Coverrand und ca. den ersten fünf Seiten.

Migration, Asylum and Diaspora

Migration, Asylum and Diaspora

In Abolitionist Intimacies, Eithne Luibhéid examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. Luibhéid shows how these migrants and activists confront such controls by mobilizing intimacies—forging close connections in order to survive in the present. From forms of kinship beyond the heterosexual nuclear family to networks of solidarity, intimacies allow queer and trans migrants and allies to challenge the infrastructures that support the deportation state: proposed pathways to citizenship for undocumented migrants; marriage as a means for legalization; traffic interactions as a pipeline to deportation; and queer and trans migrant detention. In the process, activists and theorists have advanced new visions and configurations of possible intimacies that not only challenge deportation but also rework what immigration control and citizenship could mean. By focusing on these abolitionist efforts as well as the publicly available records on queer and trans deportees, Luibhéid highlights the new understandings that emerge when the experiences of queer and trans people are centered.

Table of Contents:

A Note on Terminology vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Against the Deportation State 1
1. Pathways: Coproducing Citizenship and Deportation 33
2. Love, Marriage, and Deportation 55
3. Driving While Undocumented: Circulating Fear and Fearlessness 79
4. Cities as Chokepoints and Resistance 101
Conclusion. “At the Edge of the Possible” 123
Notes 135
Bibliography 191
Index 225

Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community

Autor Ricky Tucker war selbst lange Jahre Freund und Verbündeter der ballroom community, bevor er mit der Arbeit an diesem Buch begann. Aus einer queeren, Schwarzen und sehr persönlichen Perspektive erzählt, versammelt Tucker Interviews mit zentralen Akteur*innen, bespricht mit ihnen Fragen von Kreativität, Widerstand, Aneignung und ständige Neuerfindung. Die einzelnen Kapitel tragen die Bezeichnungen der bekanntesten Kategorien, die in den ballrooms gelaufen werden - fem queen, realness, body… Durch minutiöse Beschreibung einzelner Bälle, aber auch deren Darstellung in Popkultur und Medien, spielt Tucker mit der Magie des vogueing und der ballroom culture und kommentiert: „(…) maybe most of America didn’t exactly deserve or couldn’t even comprehend such a gift“.
Dabei verweigert sich das Buch einer - und sei es auch nur vorläufigen - Definition, was vogueing oder ballroom nun sei. Stattdessen geht es um lustvolle Widersprüchlichkeit und pragmatische Gleichzeitigkeit: community care angesichts systemischer Unterdrückung durch white supremacy, Kapitalismus und Queerfeindlichkeit. Verlagsbeschreibung:

love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture.

What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a fearless response to the systemic marginalization of minority populations.

Ricky Tucker pulls from his years as a close friend of the community to reveal the complex cultural makeup and ongoing relevance of house and Ballroom, a space where trans lives are respected and applauded, and queer youth are able to find family and acceptance. With each chapter framed as a “category” (Vogue, Realness, Body, et al.), And the Category Is . . . offers an impressionistic point of entry into this subculture, its deeply integrated history, and how it’s been appropriated for mainstream audiences. Each category features an exclusive interview with fierce LGBTQ/POC Ballroom members—Lee Soulja, Benjamin Ninja, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and more—whose lives, work, and activism drive home that very category.

At the height of public intrigue and awareness about Ballroom, thanks to TV shows like FX’s Pose, Tucker’s compelling narratives help us understand its relevance in pop culture, dance, public policy with regard to queer communities, and so much more. Welcome to the norm-defying realness of Ballroom.

Preface: Equal Parts Sugar and Shade

CHAPTER 1
Werk—w/the Legendary Pony Zion and Benji Hart (Benji Ninja).
Paris Is Burning, America’s Best Dance Crew, Pose, and Madonna and the art of appropriation

CHAPTER 2
Memory—w/Lee Soulja
Hidden figures and the history of having a ball
VOGUE ICON: José Xtravaganza

CHAPTER 3
Vogue—w/Arturo Mugler
Learning to vogue, the five elements, and getting your life

CHAPTER 4
The Children—w/Jonovia Chase, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Gia Love, Luna Luis Ortiz, Michael Roberson, Robert Sember, and LaLa Zannell
Mothers, fathers, LGBTQ youth, and lost and found families
VOGUE ICON: Leiomy Maldonado

CHAPTER 5
Church—w/MikeQ and Lee Soulja
Clubs and balls as hallowed ground, house music as gospel, and the Theology of Vogue’ology
VOGUE ICON: Kia Labeija

CHAPTER 6
Realness—w/Gia Love
Walking categories, trans lives, and the unexpected prevalence of gender norms within the Ballroom scene
VOGUE ICON: Pony Zion

CHAPTER 7
Body—w/Luna Luis Ortiz, LaLa Zannell, and Gia Love
Black trans bodies, body sponsorship, and resolving the trauma in our bodies

AFTERWORD
My Two Gay Dads—w/Michael Roberson and Robert Sember
The trappings of the not-for-profit industrial complex, 2020 vision, cosmology, astrology, and theology, the future of Ballroom—and giving it up to the Universe

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

The Roots of Today's Revolution

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990-the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s.

Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.

A Racial History of Trans Identity

Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day

In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials, Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable.

Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine

Dieses Buch legt die Inter* Geschichte mit Fokus auf Südafrika dar, beginnend mit rassistisch geprägter Forschung und Falschbehauptungen aus Kolonial- und Apartheids-Zeiten, an denen trotz gegenteiliger Beweise hartnäckig festgehalten wurde. Die Autorin hat u.a. Interviews geführt mit der Anti-Apartheid- und Inter*-Aktivistin Sally Gross und berichtet von der Entstehung der Inter*-Bewegung in Südaftrika und Inter*-Aktivismus in weiteren afrikanischen Ländern. Auch der Behandlung von Schwarzen inter* Sportler*innen und insbesondere Caster Semenya ist ein Kapitel gewidmet. Das Buch ist akademisch geprägt, aber insgesamt gut lesbar und sehr informativ. (Rezi von Anton)

Verlagsbeschreibung:

Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In Envisioning African Intersex Amanda Lock Swarr debunks this claim by interrogating contemporary intersex medicine and demonstrating its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Tracing the history of racialized research that underpins medical and scientific premises of gendered bodies, Swarr analyzes decolonial actions by intersex South Africans from the 1990s to the present, centering the work of organizers such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. Swarr also explores African social media activism that advocates for intersex justice and challenges the mistreatment of South African Olympian Caster Semenya. Throughout, Swarr shows how activists displace doctors’ impositions to fashion self-representation. By unseating colonial visions of gender, intersex South Africans are actively disrupting medical violence, decolonizing gender binaries, and inciting policy changes.

All author royalties from Envisioning African Intersex will be donated to Intersex South Africa.

Preislich reduziert wegen kleinen Knicken im Schutzcover.

50 People, Places, and Things That Tell the Story.

This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots, the Riots themselves, and the aftermath, and includes her interviews of people involved or witnesses, including a woman who was ten at the time. Profusely illustrated, the book includes contemporary photos, newspaper clippings, and other period objects. A timely and necessary read, The Stonewall Riots helps readers to understand the history and legacy of the LGBTQ+ movement.

Race and Gender through Identities, Interactions, and Systems of Power

While transgender lives are at the forefront of contemporary politics, what do we really understand about the complexity of trans experience? Trans people who go through various aspects of gender transition experience shifts not only in their gender, but also with regards to other categories of identity such as race, social class, sexuality, disability, and more. Centering the stories of trans people and their loved ones, Sojka and de Vries investigate how intersectionality operates at various levels of social meaning – the individual, the interpersonal, and the structural – in the experiences of transgender people. Collectively, they present an argument about why gendered and racialized processes, in intersection, are central to understanding trans lives.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Intersectionality and Trans Experience
Chapter 2: Gendered Racialization
Chapter 3: Multiraciality
Chapter 4: Whiteness
Chapter 5: Race and Gender Intersections with Social Class, Sexuality, Disability, and Nationality/Citizenship
Chapter 6: Intersectional Trans Futures

Appendix: Methodology
References

Mit kleinen Knicken und Abriebspuren im Cover sowie kleinen Knicken in den ersten Seiten. Ansonsten in sehr gutem Zustand.

Changing Gender in Twentieth-Century Writing

Kapitel 4 handelt u.a. von der Darstellungen von Lili Elbe als trans* und der Auslassung oder Vernachlässigung, dass Lili Elbe inter* war.

Verlagsbeschreibung und Inhaltsverzeichnis:

How Nonbinary Gender Contributes Toward Social Change

Spannendes Buch mit vielen Auszügen aus Interviews mit 47 nicht-binären Menschen darüber, wie sie erkannt haben, dass sie nicht-binär sind, über ihre körperliche und soziale Transition, Coming-Outs und Diskriminierung in der binärgeschlechtlichen Gesellschaft. Die Interviews und die Analyse wurde für eine Dissertation gemacht, das hier vorliegende Buch dann sehr gut verständlich für Nicht-Akademiker*innen aufbereitet. Vier Jahre nach den Interviews wurden die nicht-binären Personen außerdem befragt, inwieweit es in ihrem Leben seit den Interviews Veränderungen gab und ob sich gesellschaftlich für sie etwas verändert hatte. Verlagsbeschreibung:

Redoing Gender demonstrates how difficult it is to be anything other than a man or a woman in a society that selectively acknowledges those two genders. Gender nonbinary people—who identify as other genders besides simply “man” or “woman”—have begun to disrupt this binary system, but the limited progress they have made has required significant everyday labor. Through interviews with 47 nonbinary people, this book offers rich description of these forms of labor, including “rethinking sex and gender,” “resignifying gender,” “redoing relationships,” and “resisting erasure.” The final chapter interrogates the lasting impact of this labor through follow-up interviews with participants four years later. Although nonbinary people are finally managing to achieve some recognition, it is clear that this change has not happened without a fight that continues to this day.

The diverse experiences of nonbinary people in this book will help cisgender people relate to gender minorities with more compassion, and may also appeal to those questioning their own gender. This text will also be of keen interest to academics across Sociology and Gender Studies.

• Centers the voices and experiences of a diverse range of nonbinary individuals
• Rooted in sociological empirical research, but written in a clearly accessible language for the general reader
• Offers a new paradigm for understanding gender as a whole, as well as society’s relationship to and experience of it

Table of Contents: Front Matter (Pages i-xv) Introduction (Pages 1-14) Reconsidering the “Gender Revolution” (Pages 15-25) Rethinking Sex and Gender (Pages 27-49) Resignifying Gender (Pages 51-78) Redoing Relationships (Pages 79-95) Resisting Erasure (Pages 97-109) Regression and Progress (Pages 111-125) Conclusion (Pages 127-137) Back Matter (Pages 139-157)

Während ich noch nicht dazu kam, dieses Buch zu lesen, hab ich es nach einiger Recherche bestellt: Es soll z. T. misgendern, aber diese und ähnliche Kritik gibt es, soweit ich sehe, zu fast allen Sachbüchern zu Stonewall und im Gegensatz zu den anderen, hab ich für dieses hier mehr Lob als Kritik gefunden. Deshalb erst mal hier mit dabei.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

The World's Queer Frontiers

Six years in the making, The Pink Line follows protagonists from nine countries all over the globe to tell the story of how LGBTQ+ Rights became one of the world's new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia and transitioning teens in the American Mid-West, The Pink Line folds intimate and deeply affecting stories of individuals, families and communities into a definitive account of how the world has changed, so dramatically, in just a decade.

And in doing so he reveals a troubling new equation that has come in to play: while same-sex marriage and gender transition are now celebrated in some parts of the world, laws to criminalise homosexuality and gender non-conformity have been strengthened in others. In a work of great scope and wonderful storytelling, this is the groundbreaking, definitive account of how issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today.

Das Buch präsentiert eine gute Mischung über die Rechte von LGBT Personen weltweit und von den Lebenserfahrungen mehrerer schwuler, lesbischer, trans und genderqueerer Personen. Es gibt, wie der Untertitel andeutet, erfreulich viel Infos zu Geschlechtsidentität, ist im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Büchern tatsächlich international unterwegs, und der Autor hat die interviewten Personen meist über längere Zeiträume hinweg wiederholt getroffen, so dass mehr als Momentaufnahmen entstehen. Eine dem Buch gerecht werdende Rezi findet Ihr hier.

Auf Deutsch gibt es das Buch hier.

A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children

Histories of the Transgender Child uncovers a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, Jules Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies.