{"product_id":"before-we-were-trans-by-kit-heyam-2","title":"Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcross the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with stable, binary, uncomplicated gender identities. As a result, these stories tend to be recent, binary, stereotyped, medicalised and white.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBefore We Were Trans\u003c\/em\u003e is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture, feminism and politics - to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the stories of people across the globe whose experience of gender has been transgressive, or not characterised by stability or binary categories. Transporting us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to North America, the stories this book tells leave questions and resist conclusions. They are fraught with ambiguity, and defy modern Western terminology and categories - not least the category of 'trans' itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut telling them provides a history that reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written. \u003cem\u003eBefore We Were Trans\u003c\/em\u003e is a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback \/ 352 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43829126070487,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781529377767_644414cb-56bb-4478-8f33-0135e894f3eb.jpg?v=1685017240","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.live\/products\/before-we-were-trans-by-kit-heyam-2","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}