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.
""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