
Others of My Kind
Transatlantic Transgender Histories
University of Calgary Press
Published on 30. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-77385-121-1 (ISBN)
Description
A 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Title
From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of sexuality. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the public.
Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic transgender community. This book uncovers threads of connection between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands to discover the people who influenced the work of authorities like Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with their clinical presentations, but also with their personal relationships. It explores the ethical and analytical challenges that come with the study of what was once private, secret, or unacceptable to say.
With more than 170 colour and black and white illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender history.
From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of sexuality. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the public.
Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic transgender community. This book uncovers threads of connection between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands to discover the people who influenced the work of authorities like Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with their clinical presentations, but also with their personal relationships. It explores the ethical and analytical challenges that come with the study of what was once private, secret, or unacceptable to say.
With more than 170 colour and black and white illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender history.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
186 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77385-121-1 (9781773851211)
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Persons
Alex Bakker is a transgender historian and writer from The Netherlands.
Rainer Herrn is senior lecturer at the Institute for History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine and the Charite University Hospital Berlin, and founding member of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society Berlin.
Michael Thomas Taylor works as a translator and editor in Berlin.
Annette F. Timm is professor of History at the University of Calgary and editor of The Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Rainer Herrn is senior lecturer at the Institute for History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine and the Charite University Hospital Berlin, and founding member of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society Berlin.
Michael Thomas Taylor works as a translator and editor in Berlin.
Annette F. Timm is professor of History at the University of Calgary and editor of The Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Content
Introduction
Annette F. Timm, Michael Thomas Taylor, Alex Bakker, and Rainer Herrn
illustration Practices in the First Magazine for Transvestites, Das 3. Geshlect (The Third Sex)
Rainer Herrn
Visual Rhetorics of Transgender History
Michael Thomas Taylor
"I am so grateful to all you men of medicine:" Trans Cirlces of Knowledge of Intimacy
Annette F. Timm
In the Shadows of Society: Trans People in the Netherlands - the 1950s
Alex Bakker
Exhibiting Trans History
Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, and Alex Bakker
Bibliography
Annette F. Timm, Michael Thomas Taylor, Alex Bakker, and Rainer Herrn
illustration Practices in the First Magazine for Transvestites, Das 3. Geshlect (The Third Sex)
Rainer Herrn
Visual Rhetorics of Transgender History
Michael Thomas Taylor
"I am so grateful to all you men of medicine:" Trans Cirlces of Knowledge of Intimacy
Annette F. Timm
In the Shadows of Society: Trans People in the Netherlands - the 1950s
Alex Bakker
Exhibiting Trans History
Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, and Alex Bakker
Bibliography