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Histories of the transgender child / Julian Gill-Peterson.

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With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today's transgender children are a brand new generation--pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a...

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Main Author: Gill-Peterson, Jules (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Transgender children > United States > History.
Gender nonconformity > United States > History.
Gender nonconformity.
Transgender children.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : toward a trans of color critique of medicine
  • The racial plasticity of gender and the child
  • Before transsexuality : the transgender child from the 1900s to the 1930s
  • Sex in crisis : intersex children in the 1950s and the invention of gender
  • From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest : transgender childhood in the 1960s
  • Transgender boyhood, race, and puberty in the 1970s
  • Conclusion : how to bring your kids up trans.

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