Histories of the transgender child
(Book)
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Published
Minneapolis ; University of Minnesota Press, [2018].
Status
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
306.768 G
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306.768 G
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Published
Minneapolis ; University of Minnesota Press, [2018].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
UPC
99979044586
Notes
General Note
"Portions of Chapter 1 were previously published as "Implanting Plasticity into Sex and Trans/Gender: Animal and Child Metaphors in the History of Endocrinology," Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 22, no. 2 (2017): 47-60, www.tandfoline.com" -- title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index.
Description
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 previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender. Beginning with the early 1900s when children with "ambiguous" sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children's sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and '70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children's bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender's plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies. Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century--a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gill-Peterson, J. (2018). Histories of the transgender child . University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gill-Peterson, Jules. 2018. Histories of the Transgender Child. University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gill-Peterson, Jules. Histories of the Transgender Child University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gill-Peterson, Jules. Histories of the Transgender Child University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
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