A Short History of Transmisogyny

**The trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented**

Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to tell a richly detailed story of the emergence of trans misogyny.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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