Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Sara Farizan Elinor finds herself set on

Elinor finds herself set on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom

Charlene Pell wears her scars like badges of honor-she has never hidden them

a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse

Her tale includes two more women--the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop

a chance to sit at the feet of the kind of woman they don't make anymore--and never did

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Sara Farizan Elinor finds herself set onA groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied