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TRANSGENDER WARRIORS:
Making History From Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
In this fascinating, personal journey through history,
Leslie Feinberg--one of the most prominent gender rights
activists today--uncovers persuasive evidence that there
have always been people who crossed the cultural
boundaries of gender. Out of hir embattled childhood and teenage years as a gender outlaw,
Feinberg began a search for others like hir in history.
Ze found a long tradition of fighting back against
injustice--from Joan of Arc to the Welsh peasants who
cross-dressed to protest taxes; from the Black and Latina
drag queens who led the Stonewall Rebellion to
transsexual parents today. Despite the sometimes terrible
price that traditional society often exacted of these
transgender warriors, Feinberg urges us to receive them
as heroes and visionaries.
Illustrated with many never-before-published historical
images and contemporary photographs, Transgender Warriors
is an eye-opening jaunt through the history of gender
expression--from ancient Syria to the contemporary United
States--and a powerful testament to the rebellious
spirit.
SOFTCOVER 1997 218pp. ISBN 0-8070-0937-7 / $23.00
Beacon Press
112 illustrations; notes; bibliography
GENDER STUDIES/HISTORY
To buy it from Beacon's Bookstore
Transgender Warriors: on Sojourners' list of
Feminist Books of the 20th Century
REVIEWS
No book since Toni Morrison's Beloved gives so much and
holds
itself so well. History becomes art, the political
becomes transformative,the personal becomes universal.
--CRAIG HICKMAN, Gay Community News
Transgender Warriors does far more than document the
history of t
ransgenders. It delves into the transgender experience,
inviting
the reader to consider a spectrum of gender
possibilities.
--LINDA GEORGE, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
A ground-breaking gift to both the transgender community
and the
world at large.
--RACHEL REED, Synapse
A well-written, well-researched compendium of transgender
history.
--HARRIET L. SCHWARTZ, Philadelphia Gay News
Nobody will remain unaffected by this book.
--HEATHER FINDLAY, Girlfriends
Fascinating.
--WHITNEY SCOTT, Booklist
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the May 16, 1996 issue of Workers World
newspaper:
http://www.workers.org/ww/trans.html
Review by Cyber Grrl, Lee Anne Phillips
Hares & Hyenas Bookshop
"A fascinating personal journey through history by one of
the most prominent transgender activists today."
http://hares-hyenas.com.au/book.asp?RecID=4740
Marxism,
The Nation and Transgender Warrior
http://www.workers.org/ww/nation.html
Also translated into Czech
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