You can read a wide range of queer and trans studies books through Swarthmore's libraries and the TriCo.
Here are just a few examples:
Places the histories of trans bodies at the core of modern Argentinian history, documenting the lives of people who crossed the boundaries of gender from the early twentieth century to the present.
Challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical innovation by locating a cultural imaginary of transition in the religious writing of the English Renaissance.
Award-winning history centering multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.
Gill-Peterson narrates the previously unacknowledged twentieth-century history of transgender children and their centrality in wider histories of medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender.
Explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present.
Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal.
By showing how blackness opens up a way to subvert the hegemonic power of the gender binary, Bey makes a case for an antiracist gender abolition project that rejects cisgender as a regulatory apparatus.
A gripping ethnography of hijras and their communities, Saria details the intimate, social, and economic structures that determine how hijras craft their lives, whom and where they love, and the losses they grieve.
Weaving together the stories of historical figures in a richly detailed narrative, the book shows how trans femininity emerged under colonial governments, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public spaces, and the area between the formal and informal economy.
Malatino explores how acknowledging "bad feelings" of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing.
Examining left-leaning Latin American governments' engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues.
Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment.
Reveals the hidden logics that have governed sex classification policies in the United States and shows what the regulation of transgender identity can tell us about society's approach to sex and gender writ large.
