num_pages: 771
description: Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reade r puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.
language: English
title: The Transgender Studies Reader
titlecomplete: The Transgender Studies Reader
genres: Queer, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Gender Studies, Theory, Transgender, LGBT, Gender, Anthologies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 341
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender
publisher: Routledge