Trans America: A Counter-History by Barry Reay HARDBACK 9781509511785

Trans America: A Counter-History\nby Barry Reay\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Barry Reay\nTitle: Trans America: A Counter-History\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of science\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781509511785\nISBN-10: 1509511784\nRRP: \u00A355.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nTrans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of trans visibility in the 1960s and early 1970s faced a vehement backlash right at the time that trans, in the form of what was then termed transvestism and transsexuality, seemed .