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Queer and Trans Studies (Swarthmore)

Databases, journals, primary source collections, and other resources

Queer & Trans Studies Books

You can read a wide range of queer and trans studies books through Swarthmore's libraries and the TriCo.

Here are just a few examples:

A Body of One's Own

Places the histories of trans bodies at the core of modern Argentinian history, documenting the lives of people who crossed the boundaries of gender from the early twentieth century to the present.

Glorious Bodies: trans theology and Renaissance literature

Challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical innovation by locating a cultural imaginary of transition in the religious writing of the English Renaissance.

Black on Both Sides: a racial history of trans identity

Award-winning history centering multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.