Female Husbands: A Trans History

Informationen zum Autor Jen Manion is Associate Professor of History at Amherst College, the author of Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (2015), and a lifelong LGBTQ rights advocate. Klappentext A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The first book-length history of female husbands: people assigned female at birth who transed gender to live fully as men in the United States and United Kingdom. Jen Manion draws on a wealth of sources to offer a dynamic! varied! and complex history of the LGBTQ past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: extraordinary lives; Part I. UK Husbands, 1740-1840: 1. The first female husband; 2. The pillar of the community; 3. The sailors and soldiers; 4. The wives; Part II. US Husbands,1830-1910: 5. The workers; 6. The activists; 7. The criminalized poor; 8. The end of a category; Conclusion: sex trumps gender; Epilogue: the first female-to-male transsexual.

Product details

• Authors: Jen Manion, Jen (Amherst College Manion, Manion Jen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108483803
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48380-3
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, USA, Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität / LGBTQ, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, USA / Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Recht, Englische Bücher / Politik- u. Sozialwissenschaft, USA / Geschichte (bis 1945), Frau / Gesellschaft, Politik, Recht, USA: Kolonisierung und Besiedlung (ca. 1600 bis 1775), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Gender Studies / Transgender, Transgender - Transsexualität - Intersexualität, United States of America, USA, Gay & Lesbian studies, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, HISTORY / LGBTQ+