Transgender warriors : making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul

by Leslie Feinberg.
Boston : Beacon Press, 1996.

Feinberg examines use of language, perceptions of the body, the status of clothing, and the structures of societies that welcome or are threatened by gender variance, uncovering persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. The portrait gallery that closes the book contains photographs and capsule biographies of contemporary transgendered people.