Susan Stryker
Susan Stryker is associate professor of gender and women’s studies, and director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of several books on transgender and queer topics, most recently Transgender History (2008). She won a Lambda Literary Award for the anthology The Transgender Studies Reader (2006), and an Emmy for the documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005).
Books by Susan Stryker
“I think it’s a good starting point, because it talks about politics and about social movements, but it also talks about personal stories, and a really important aspect of trans histories, namely the developments and discussions in the medical and psychiatric fields.” Read more...
The best books on Queer History
Benno Gammerl, Historian
Interviews with Susan Stryker
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Confessions of the Fox
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I've Got a Time Bomb
by Sybil Lamb -
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
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Histories of the Transgender Child
by Julian Gill-Peterson -
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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A Stanley and Johanna Burton
The Best of Trans Literature, recommended by Susan Stryker
The Best of Trans Literature, recommended by Susan Stryker
Many of the current controversies over trans rights and identities derive from false beliefs, explains the author and academic Susan Stryker. Here she selects five excellent contemporary trans titles with depth, complexity and heart, to help us reframe what has all too often become a toxic debate
Interviews where books by Susan Stryker were recommended
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Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
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Queer London
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis -
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Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers and the Queerness of Time
by Carolyn Dinshaw
The best books on Queer History, recommended by Benno Gammerl
The best books on Queer History, recommended by Benno Gammerl
Queer history is not simply about exploring the historical incidence of non-heteronormative sexual desire and experience. It is also a way of looking at the past and of placing gender and sexuality at the heart of historical change. Here, Benno Gammerl, professor of Gender and Sexuality at the European University Institute, explains.
