{"product_id":"9781529377767-before-we-were-trans","title":"Before We Were Trans","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA New History of Gender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA globe-spanning, different and vital new history of gender. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eHistory Today \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, \u003ci\u003eBefore We Were Trans \u003c\/i\u003einvites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in welcoming ways, rather than contracting them and policing their borders'\u003c\/b\u003e MEG-JOHN BARKER, author of \u003ci\u003eGender: A Graphic Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Celebrates trans history, whilst acknowledging the reality of what it means to live within our community with joy and kindness. In-depth research and personal stories tie \u003ci\u003eBefore We Were Trans\u003c\/i\u003e up into a true treat for the mind' \u003c\/b\u003eJAMIE WINDUST, author of\u003ci\u003e In Their Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with stable, binary, uncomplicated gender identities. As a result, these stories tend to be recent, binary, stereotyped, medicalised and white.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore We Were Trans \u003c\/i\u003eis a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture, feminism and politics - to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the stories of people across the globe whose experience of gender has been transgressive, or not characterised by stability or binary categories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Transporting us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to North America, the stories this book tells leave questions and resist conclusions. They are fraught with ambiguity, and defy modern Western terminology and categories - not least the category of 'trans' itself. But telling them provides a history that reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore We Were Trans \u003c\/i\u003eis a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40839946502241,"sku":"9781529377767","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29764102.jpg?v=1725724019","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529377767-before-we-were-trans","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}