Changing Gender
The History and Future of a Concept
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Publishing:27th Aug '26
£25.00
This title is due to be published on 27th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9781781258170)
From the award-winning scholar and filmmaker, an essential, enlightening exploration of gender and the self
Gender is one of the most contested topics of our age, as ideologies are weaponised by the far right and real trans lives are targeted. But what are we talking about when we talk about gender? What are the origins of the concept itself, and where might it take us in the future? Rooted in decades of deep research and first-hand experience, Susan Stryker's sharp-eyed analysis invites us into her lifelong quest to uncover what gender means and does. From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies to examples from her lifetime as an agenda setting historian, filmmaker and activist, Stryker finds surprising places to tune into the origins, idiosyncrasies and generative possibilities of the gender concept.
Whenever Susan Stryker speaks, I listen. Stryker's career is one of those that has altered the way that those of us who came after her think-and live our lives -- Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby
Reading Susan Stryker, we are gloriously transformed -- Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child
Moving, mind-blowing and fun. Stryker combines memoir with history and links personal anecdote to theory to great effect and in the process, she shifts the narrative from -- Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity
A staggering achievement, and a gift to a world in desperate need of such a clear-eyed, compassionate diagnosis and manifesto for change. Changing Gender is the book I wish I could have written. Nobody does it like Susan Stryker -- CN Lester, author of Trans Like Me
A tour de force from a seminal voice. Stryker cuts through the noise to provide an inspirational consideration of 'gender' - as a concept, a politics, an experience and a practice. A transformative book -- Sally Hines, author of Is Gender Fluid?
Lucid, crackling with humour and insight. A much-needed guide for thinking and living otherwise in troubling times -- Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
A breathtaking switchback ride... inspiring -- Roz Kaveney, author of The Great Good Time
ISBN: 9781781258163
Dimensions: 236mm x 162mm x 36mm
Weight: 600g
384 pages
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