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An introduction to transgender terms and concepts -- A hundred years of transgender history -- Transgender liberation -- The difficult decades -- The current wave

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Foundations and ruins : why don't transgender and architecture get along? -- How to beat a straight flush : DS+R's brasserie and the rhetoric of transgender "plumbing" -- "The ladies lavatory" : woolf and the transgender biographical imperative -- Woolf's Einfühlung : an alternative theory of transgender affect, space, and time -- "I'll call him mahood instead, I prefer that, I'm queer" : Samuel Beckett's spatial aesthetic of name change -- Against transgender integrity : Beckett's grey matter -- Epilogue: a transgender poetics of the high line park -- Works cited -- Index

"A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout 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"--

Transgender and intersex: theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives / Stefan Horlacher -- Queer Europe: new normative values for global LGBT law / Stephen Whittle and Lewish Turney -- Fear, loathing, and empty gestures: UK legislation and sport and the transgender participant / David McArdle -- Intersex and Trans* communities: commonalities and tensions / Cary Gabrield Costello -- Transgender and intersex: unavoidable essentialism and the normative struggle for recognition / Sebastian Jansen -- Trans*, intersex, and the question of pregnancy: beyond repronormative reproduction / Nadyne Stritzke and Elisa Scaramuzza -- Transgender in a globle frame / Jack Halberstam -- INTER*me: an inter-locution on the body in photography / Del LaGracy Volcano, Jay Prosser, and Eliza Steinbock -- Hermaphrodite's voice: dealing with the either-or attitude in science, law, and the arts / Michael Groneberg -- On the intelligibility of trans* and intersex characters and contemporary British and American fiction / Mirjam M. Frotscher -- Boys don't cry and Tomboy: a comparative analysis / John Phillips

Imagining transgender -- Making community -- "I know what I am" : gender, sexuality, and identity -- The making of a field : anthropology and transgender studies -- The logic of inclusion : transgender activism -- The calculus of pain : violence, narrative, and the self -- Conclusion: Making ethnography

"Each title in the Unlocking Current Issues series presents the evolution of a salient current issue, with a focus on providing historical evidence of key moments in the development of the issue through excerpts of primary documents and contextual information, and a clear summary of positions. This volume focuses on transgender life"--