Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey is a 1956 study written by Jeannette Howard Foster chronicling approximately 2,600 years of female same-sex attraction in literature, beginning with Sappho’s works in 6th century BC and ending with Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt in 1952.
The Strange Career of the Chevalier D’Eon de Beaumont is a historical biography written by John Buchan Telfer in 1885. The book tells the story of Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, a French diplomat, spy, and soldier who lived during the 18th century. D’Eon was known for his androgynous appearance and…
The unique problems and needs of the female-to-male transsexual and crossdresser have largely been ignored in the literature to date. One must plow through volumes of material directed to the male-to-female in order to find a few sentences concerning the female-to-male. When the female-to-male does find something, she will most likely read that someone with…
Vancouver General Hospital has had, for approximately 5 years, a number of individual specialists working together in the care of transsexual patients. For the past year, a formal multidisciplinary clinic has been in operation. In March, 1986, the provincial medical plan recognized the Gender Dysphoria Clinic by agreeing to fund gender reassignment surgery for patients…
The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of “the archive” as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional,…
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a…
En las últimas décadas se ha visto un incremento en la representación de la figura del travesti, tanto dentro de la ficción como dentro de los estudios literarios, históricos y culturales. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos estudios se enfocan en el travesti masculino (male-to-female). La travesti femenina ha sido poco estudiada, sobre todo, en…
In the summer of 1953, the United Daily News (聯合報) in Taiwan announced the sex change surgery of the “first” Chinese transsexual, Xie Jianshun (謝尖順). Xie’s story soon triggered an avalanche of media sensationalism in postwar Taiwan. This article adds greater historical depth to this episode of trans-culturation by examining other accounts of unusual bodily…
This essay theorizes the work of rage at the interface of trans and feminist theories and movements. The juncture of trans and feminist movements is in need of continuing attention given the contemporary resurgence of trans-exclusionary forms of feminist thought and praxis and the ongoing phenomenon of a form of feminist trans tolerance that often…
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