| Description |
x, 262 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"Despite transgender rights being front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth that transgender children are a brand new generation -- pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles -- persists today. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, revealing that gender nonconforming children preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors and played a central role in the medicalization of trans people. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics in the twentieth century, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children's bodies, foregrounding the racial history of medicine that excludes trans of color children through the concept of gender's plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and of transgender studies."--From back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : toward a trans of color critique of medicine -- The racial plasticity of gender and the child -- Before transsexuality : the transgender child from the 1900s to the 1930s -- Sex in crisis : intersex children in the 1950s and the invention of gender -- From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest : transgender childhood in the 1960s -- Transgender boyhood, race, and puberty in the 1970s -- Conclusion : how to bring your kids up trans. |
| Subject |
Transgender children -- United States -- History.
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Gender nonconformity -- United States -- History.
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Gender nonconformity. (OCoLC)fst01765240
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Transgender children. (OCoLC)fst01745628
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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MEDICAL / History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gill-Peterson, Julian. Histories of the transgender child. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018] 9781452958156 (DLC) 2018010450 |
| ISBN |
9781517904661 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1517904668 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781517904678 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1517904676 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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