A review by aemily
Transgender History by Susan Stryker

3.0

The sense I get after reading this book is that there is so much left to learn, which I think is the right sentiment for a popular book about a complex subject. At times, this insistence to cover the most relevant-to-today bits of this story felt unnecessarily rushed; questions about human history and sociology and psychology are raised and then left by the wayside in order to fast forward to activism in the late 20th century. It is so important to know about the sometimes-tense relationship with feminism, which helps contemporary readers understand the relative recency of "inclusivity" as a trait of feminist spaces. I suppose my main qualm, then, is that the book is not full of footnotes and much longer, which would ultimately make it less accessible.