The book offers a unique narrative of gender history, blending culture, feminism, and politics to expand our understanding of trans experiences globally. From Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, Edo Japan to North America, these stories challenge modern Western categories, leaving room for ambiguity and resisting easy conclusions.
Before We Were Trans is a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity.
A History Today Book of the Year 2022