{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-isbn-9781804291566","title":"A Short History of Trans Misogyny","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called \"one of the best books in trans studies in recent years\" by Susan Stryker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A beautifully written and argued book.” - Torrey Peters, author of \u003ci\u003eDetransition, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite reprisal—which would make violence unstoppable—then the psychology of that violence had to arise at a certain place and time. The trans panic had to be invented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson takes us from the bustling port cities of New York and New Orleans to the streets of London and Paris in search of the emergence of modern trans misogyny. She connects the colonial and military districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai’i to the lively \u003ci\u003etravesti\u003c\/i\u003e communities of Latin America, where state violence has stamped a trans label on vastly different ways of life. Weaving together the stories of historical figures in a richly detailed narrative, the book shows how trans femininity emerged under colonial governments, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public spaces, and the area between the formal and informal economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Short History of Trans Misogyny\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explain why trans women are burdened by such a weight of injustice and hatred.\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: Femmes against Trans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Global Trans Panic\u003cbr\u003e2. Sex and the Antebellum City\u003cbr\u003e3. Queens of the Gay World\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: \u003ci\u003eMujerísima \u003c\/i\u003eand Scarcity Feminism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"Jules Gill-Peterson is one of the most original thinkers on gender of the past decade; now in this beautifully written and argued book, she makes her compelling vision accessible to everyone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Torrey Peters, author of \u003ci\u003eDetransition, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a sharply argued work by a brilliant thinker. By placing current the familiar and current political attack on trans femininity in Europe and North America within a much broader global and historical context, this text provides us with a rigorous and scholarly understanding of the origins and rationale of such violence. It educated and challenged me and it will become a vital contribution to political thought and organising around gender.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Shon Faye, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Jules Gill-Peterson's provocative and generative framing, trans misogyny is not a minoritizing term for describing the disparagement of femininity in trans women; it is a ubiquitous, infrastructural pressure that effects everyone to some degree, informing the hierarchy of lives deemed worth living. Details inside.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susan Stryker, \u003ci\u003eTransgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Short History of Trans Misogyny\u003c\/i\u003e is a nuanced, wide-ranging, and instantly canonical account from one of our foremost historians. Rich and eloquent with archival detail, this is a trans history that honors the complexity the subject deserves, that exposes the violence of colonial and neocolonial forms of sexualization, and that describes spaces of refusal to this brutality, both within the past and as threads of resistance in our present political landscape. An urgent, propulsive, and profound book.”\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jordy Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Trans Misogyny\u003c\/i\u003e, one can feel Gill-Peterson going to lengths to animate and honour the rich lives of the femmes she writes about through archival research.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Amelia Abraham, \u003ci\u003eGay Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Gill-Peterson] gives us a much-needed account of the genesis of trans misogyny and its subsequent history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—McKenzie Wark, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gill-Peterson’s analysis enables us to think both more concretely and more ambitiously. In order to effectively counter the current surge of anti-trans legislation, we will need to follow her lead.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Paisley Currah, \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An interesting and necessary intervention...Gill-Peterson charts a historical course back through the past few centuries of Euro-American colonial violence to locate the birth of transmisogyny as we know it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Harron Walker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJules Gill-Peterson\u003c\/b\u003e is US-based writer, activist, and the author of the award-winning book \u003ci\u003eHistories of the Transgender Child\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 2018. Gill-Peterson is a tenured associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and a General Editor of \u003ci\u003eTSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the journal of record in the field. She has earned a public reputation for fiercely advocating for transgender children and women, with interviews in outlets from NPR, to ABC, to \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. She was profiled by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand published an op-ed on trans kids in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e in 2021. She has also written for the \u003ci\u003eNew Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJewish Currents\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBaffler\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFunambulist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParapraxis\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. Gill-Peterson is the cohost of \u003ci\u003eOutward\u003c\/i\u003e, Slate's LGBT podcast, and a member of the \u003ci\u003eDeath Panel\u003c\/i\u003e podcast. She is also the narrator of the award-winning documentary \u003ci\u003eFraming Agnes\u003c\/i\u003e (dir. 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