Female Husbands

A Trans History

De: Jen Manion

Narrado por: Kate Harper

Duración: 13 h y 2 m

Resumen del Editor

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transgendered, 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 toward 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 20th century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.

©2020 Jen Manion (P)2020 Cambridge University Press

wouldn't recommend unless you're informed

Book shouldn't have been written by a cis person who isn't intersex. It's full of transphobic and intersexist language originating from the author, who refuses to properly gender several people they talk about (using both they AND she to refer to them, but almost never he) the book serves as a good collection of stories about people with similar life experience, but that's the only positive thing I can say about it. I need it to be clear that I understand the authors rational for this, but I also need it to be clear that they are wrong. All content from the authors own brain does nothing to enhance the narratives they're sharing.