![]() ![]() The first section of the book discusses how Feinberg became interested in transgender history. The book itself is organized into five sections correlating roughly with when Feinberg learned the information she presents and chunking similar information thematically. ![]() Feinberg uses her personal history to frame her discussion of world history and help people relate the information to present day struggles. The Marxist lens which Feinberg uses in "Transgender Liberation" is also present in Transgender Warriors. This pamphlet was one of the first works to use transgender in an expansive sense, and the pamphlet gave the word a new "political charge". The beginnings of the research that would become Transgender Warriors first appeared in Feinberg's pamphlet "Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come", which was published by the Workers World Party in 1992. It was one of the first books to articulate a trans-historical understanding of transgender identity and argue for the inclusion of gender nonconforming people throughout history. In Transgender Warriors, she discusses people who have crossed sex and gender boundaries in various places from ancient times to present day. ![]() Feinberg is best known for her autobiographical novel Stone Butch Blues. ![]() Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, published in 1996, is an autobiographical popular history by transgender activist and author Leslie Feinberg. ![]()
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