{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-isbn-9781804291603","title":"A Short History of Trans Misogyny","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-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.\"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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