Introduction to Transgender Studies

by Susan Stryker (Author), Ardel Haefele–thomas (Author), Thatcher Combs (Author)

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  Paperback
  2019

  $51.41

  This is the first introductory text/reader for trans, transgender, or trans* studies at all levels, from first year to graduate coursework.

  Using entertaining as well as informative features, this combination text/reader will appeal to a range of students who may know very little about the field. It can be used in programs and courses ranging from major courses to electives in LGBT/queer studies, feminist/gender studies, and other allied disciplines.

  The book's step-by-step teaching tools include:

  -Key questions for students
  -Personal brief vignettes (told in first person)
  -Writings from the community (full-length commissioned essays by community members, mostly trans people but also LGB people and allies)
  -Key concepts
  -Film, television, and media of interest (titles and brief descriptions)
  -Activities, discussion questions, and observations

  Throughout, Ardel Haefele-Thomas embraces the richness of intersecting identities: how race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, nation, religion, and ability have cross-influenced to shape the transgender experience and culture across and beyond the binary.

  If you are an instructor using or considering this text for a course, please contact coursematerials@columbiauniversitypress.com for a complimentary instructor's manual.