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Availability:In StockContributor:Jen ManionPublish date:2020-03-26Pages:350
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108483803ISBN-10:1108483801UPC:9781108483803Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies, United StatesBook Topic:Transgender Studies, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:9.10 x 6.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCF271QW1N
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108483803ISBN-10:1108483801UPC:9781108483803Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies, United StatesBook Topic:Transgender Studies, Colonial Period (1600-1775)Size:9.10 x 6.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCF271QW1N
Manion, Jen: - Jen Manion is Associate Professor of History at Amherst College, the author of Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (2015), and a lifelong LGBTQ rights advocate.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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