Binding: Paperback
Description: Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender lived as men and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk danger violence and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social economic and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women's rights ultimately leading to the demise of the category of 'female husband in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential Female Husbands offers a dynamic varied and complex history of the Lgbtq past.
Title: Female Husbands A Trans History
Author(s): Manion Jen (Amherst College Massachusetts)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108718271
Pages: 350 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises; 26 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 5/13/2021
Category: Gay & Lesbian Studies