Others of My Kind
Transatlantic Transgender Histories
From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of gender identity. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the public.
Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic transgender community. This book uncovers threads of connection between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands to discover the people who influenced the work of authorities like Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with their clinical presentations, but also with their personal relationships.
With more than 180 colour and black and white illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender history.
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PDF PDF Front Matter
PDF Introduction
PDF Das 3. Geshlecht (The 3rd sex): Illustration Practices in the First Magazine for Transvestites
PDF "I am so grateful to all you men of medicine": Trans Circles of Knowledge and Intimacy
PDF In the Shadows of Society: Trans People in the Netherlands in the 1950s
PDF Visual Medical Rhetorics of Transgender Histories
PDF TransTrans: Exhibiting Trans Histories
PDF Trans Transatlantic
PDF Historicizing Transgender Terminology
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- isbn978-1-77385-122-8
- publisherUniversity of Calgary Press
- publisher placeCalgary, AB
- restrictionsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- rightsThis Open Access work is published under a Creative Commons license.
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