Stanford Humanities Center
Susan Stryker, Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, earned her PhD in US History at UC-Berkeley. She is author of Transgender History, co-editor of The Transgender Studies Reader, co-founder of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and co-director of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria.
SHC Project
Changing Gender
Changing Gender constructs a unified historical narrative of gender-variance in North America from the 17th century to the present. It address the meta-historical problem of the historicity of the categories through which we think about embodiment and identity (such as the term “gender” itself), situates contemporary transgender phenomena in the long historical arc of biocentrism, and argues that trans issues are a key site of social struggle in the late Anthropocene.
Executive Editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Book Series Co-Editor, ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after (Duke)
Co-Editor, The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge)
Author, Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Seal)
Co-Director, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (ITVS)
