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Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories
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 gender identity. 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With more than 180 colour and black and white illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender history.

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Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories
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 gender identity. 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 180 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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Overview

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 gender identity. 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 180 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773851211
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Publication date: 10/30/2020
Pages: 298
Product dimensions: 8.46(w) x 0.43(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

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 Charité 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.

Table of Contents

List of Galleries
Forward by Aaron Denver
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Annette F. Timm, Michael Thomas Taylor, Alex Bakker, and Rainer Herrn

Das 3. Geschelcht (The 3rd Sex): Illustration PRactices in the First Magazine for Transvestites
Rainer Herrn

"I am so greatful to all you men of medicine": Trans Circles of Knowledge and Intimacy
Annette F. Timm

In the Shadows of Society: Trans People in the Netherlands in the 1950s
Alex Bakker

Visual Medical Reheetorics of Transgender Histories
Michael Thomas Taylor

TransTrans: Exhibiting Trans Histories
Michal Thomas Taylor

Trans Transatlantic
Nora Eckert

Historicizing Transgender Terminology
Annette F. Timm with Michael Thomas Taylor

Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Others of My Kind presents an exciting reconsideration of how we do trans history, negotiating historical tensions between scientific expertise and trans self-presentation, visibility and passing, medical progress and individual privacy. Contending admirably with the ethics of examining "difficult" photographs, the authors challenge voyeuristic traditions of trans representation through a finely attuned focus on intimate narratives and self-creation, showing how trans individuals actively shaped the priorities of 20th-century medical research from Berlin to New York, and from Antwerp to Casablanca.

—Katie Sutton, Australian National University


Informative, readable, and fascinating, Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories delivers on its title, showing how a fascinating international network of trans people from Europe and North America expressed themselves in the privacy of their own homes, communicated amongst themselves, and interacted with a similarly transnational set of sympathetic medical experts.

—Robert Deam Tobin, Clark University

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