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TRANSGENDER ISSUES.

Publication: Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: TRANSGENDER ISSUES.(Transgender History)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Susan Stryker, TRANSGENDER HISTORY. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008. 190p. illus. bibl. index. pap., $12.95, ISBN 978-1580052245.

As someone who identifies as transgender, I approached this volume with a bit of trepidation, since the books I've previously read on transgender issues have varied in their approaches from medically dry to negatively biased.

Reading the prologue revealed that the author of this Seal Press title is a historian by profession. She is also transsexual. This gave me hope that the book would portray the transgender community in a positive light and be reasonably complete and accurate. I knew that chronicling transgender history is a journey fraught with many perils. How do you best convey the history of a movement with such a wide variety of players?

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