The Transgender Studies Reader is a collection of fifty influential historical and contemporary articles with contextual introductions by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. The selections document the evolution of transgender studies in the Englishspeaking world. By bringing togethet the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists, and theorists, this volume seeks to highlight important early works in scientific sexology and transsexualism, and feminist and queer theory, as well as key texts that explicitly engage the politics of gender identity.

Contributors: Harry Benjamin, Kate Bornstein, Nan Alamilla Boyd, George Brown, Judith Butler, Patrick Califia, David O. Cauldwell, Cheryl Chase, Jason Cromwell, Aaron Devor, Leslie Feinberg, Rita Felski, Marjorie Garber, Harold Garfinkel, Jamison Green, Judith Halberstam, Jacob Hale, Donna Haraway, Bernice Hausman, Magnus Hirschfeld, Jordy Jones, Richard Juang, Suzanne J. Kessler, Emi Koyama, Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Heather Love, Nicolas Matte, Wendy McKenna, Joanne Meyerowitz, Lynn M. Morgan, Viviane K. Namaste, Zachary I. Nataf, Esther Newton, Jay Prosser, Janice Raymond, Carol Riddell, Katrina Roen, Gayle Rubin, Henry Rubin, Andrew Sharpe, Charles Shepherdson, Ben Singer, Dean Spade, Robert Stoller, Sandy Stone, Susan Stryker, Lou Sullivan, Evan B. Towle, David Valentine, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Stephen Whittle, and Riki Anne Wilchins.

Susan Stryker is an internationally recognized independen transgender studies scholar and filmmaker. She is co-director of the public television documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafetaria and contributing editor of the transgender studies special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

Stephen Whittle is recognized worldwide as the leading legal scholar and advisor on transgender law. He is Reader in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, Vice President of Press for Change, a transactivist organization based in the United Kingdom, and the author of The Transgender Debate: The Crisis Surrounding Gender Identity and Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights.