Susan Stryker

From the groundbreaking trans scholar Susan Stryker, a provocative, genre-bending call to reconsider the story we tell about gender itself.

Changing Gender

Susan Stryker lives and breathes trans history. Which makes this book feel like a reckoning.

Changing Gender is a political and intellectual history of the concept, tracing how we came to think about it the way we do, and how it’s been contested, weaponized, liberated, and reclaimed.

I love books like this: exploring not just what happened, but why it exists in the first place.

The refusal to separate the intellectual from the political is much appreciated! She never loses the human in the concept, rendering her discussions in beautiful, almost lyrical prose.

A grounding, devastating, but dare I say hopeful work: this is the historical grounding we need.

I received an early copy courtesy of the publishers via Netgalley. All opinions are mine alone.

Zachary Kai

Susan Stryker lives and breathes trans history. Which makes this book feel like a reckoning.

Changing Gender is a political and intellectual history of the concept, tracing how we came to think about it the way we do, and how it’s been contested, weaponized, liberated, and reclaimed.

I love books like this: exploring not just what happened, but why it exists in the first place.

The refusal to separate the intellectual from the political is much appreciated! She never loses the human in the concept, rendering her discussions in beautiful, almost lyrical prose.

A grounding, devastating, but dare I say hopeful work: this is the historical grounding we need.

I received an early copy courtesy of the publishers via Netgalley. All opinions are mine alone.

Changing Gender Susan Stryker

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