Transgender History, Present and Future

[Shana A]

Transgender History, Present and Future
By Feature Writer | Published: March 26, 2011

http://globalcomment.com/2011/transgender-history-present-and-future/

Susan Stryker, Transgender History, Seal Press, 2008.

Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, eds. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, 2010.

The feminist press Seal has carved out a distinctive niche for itself in its line of transgender authored books, still often something of a rarity in today's publishing world.  Two recent books from Seal demonstrate the vitality of transsexual, transgender and genderqueer writings in the present day, as well as some of the ongoing political tensions between various groups in the transgender umbrella

Susan Stryker's Transgender History is, as the name suggests, is a history of transgender people and politics of the last hundred 150 years, primarily in the United States.