Leslie Feinberg, born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1949, was a transgender activist, a revolutionary communist, and the author of 5 books, including Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue and the Lambda Award-winning novel Stone Butch Blues. Zie died in 2014. In 2019, zie was one of the first 50 LGBTQ leaders to be honored on the newly dedicated National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at the Stonewall Inn in New York City.
Men and women have had their histories. This is the history book
for the rest of us.--Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw
"[Transgender Warriors] leaves us with a sense that a transgendered
concept of what it is to be fully human and psychologically whole
is both valid and nothing new. A brief review cannot do justice to
this amazing resource, not only for our communities, but for the
world."--Patricia Roth Schwartz, Lambda Book Report
"[Transgender Warriors] does far more than document the history of
transgenders. It delves into the transgender experience, inviting
the reader to consider a spectrum of gender possibilities." --Linda
Gebroe, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"No book since Toni Morrison's Beloved gives so much and holds
itself so well. History becomes art, the political becomes
transformative, the personal becomes universal." --Craig Hickman,
Gay Community News
"The challenge Feinberg sets forth-a complex, multisided one-is to
take up the banner of feminism and extend it, stretch it, until it
has room for all women."--Rosemarie C. Sultan, Sojourner
"A ground-breaking gift to both the transgender community and the
world at large."--Rachel Reed, Synapse
"A well-written, well-researched compendium of transgender
history."--Harriet L. Schwartz, Philadelphia Gay News
"Nobody will remain unaffected by this book." --Heather Findlay,
Girlfriends
Feinberg, a surgically and hormonally transgendered female-to-male and the author of the novel Stone Butch Blues, here effectively pummels several old saws about gender, such as that there were two or three centuries in ancient Greece that constituted the golden age of gayness ("How happy were the gay slaves?" she asks). She also shows the often frantic and neurotic ways Western society clings to rigid notions of gender, while at the same time she describes (though not fully enough) how these notions shift radically from age to age. But her historical perspective can be sketchy. Feinberg, for example, expends little effort in looking into why a notorious band of male Welsh revolutionaries calling themselves Rebecca and Her Daughters dressed as women to destroy tollbooths in the mid-19th century. Though she draws many conclusions from this and other examples of cross-dressing rebellion through the ages, she fails to consider that the readiest disguise for a married man is his wife's clothing. The book does offer an enlightening album of singular people: a female transvestite who is sexually attracted to gay men; a couple consisting of a female cross-dresser and a male-cross-dresser. But Feinberg ultimately leaves too many gaps, both in history and in reasoning, to make her theories about gender expression and gender oppression solid. Author tour. (May) FYI: Filming of Stone Butch Blues, which won both the ALA Award for Gay and Lesbian Literature and the Lambda Literary Award in 1993, is to begin this spring.
Men and women have had their histories. This is the history book
for the rest of us.--Kate Bornstein, author of Gender
Outlaw
"[Transgender Warriors] leaves us with a sense that a
transgendered concept of what it is to be fully human and
psychologically whole is both valid and nothing new. A brief review
cannot do justice to this amazing resource, not only for our
communities, but for the world."--Patricia Roth Schwartz, Lambda
Book Report
"[Transgender Warriors] does far more than document the
history of transgenders. It delves into the transgender experience,
inviting the reader to consider a spectrum of gender
possibilities." --Linda Gebroe, San Francisco Chronicle Book
Review
"No book since Toni Morrison's Beloved gives so much and
holds itself so well. History becomes art, the political becomes
transformative, the personal becomes universal." --Craig Hickman,
Gay Community News
"The challenge Feinberg sets forth-a complex, multisided one-is to
take up the banner of feminism and extend it, stretch it, until it
has room for all women."--Rosemarie C. Sultan, Sojourner
"A ground-breaking gift to both the transgender community and the
world at large."--Rachel Reed, Synapse
"A well-written, well-researched compendium of transgender
history."--Harriet L. Schwartz, Philadelphia Gay News
"Nobody will remain unaffected by this book." --Heather Findlay,
Girlfriends
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