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An Evening With Jen Manion, “Female Husbands: A Trans History”
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The Women and Gender Studies Program is pleased to invite you to campus for a night of shared inquiry and engagement with the past. Please join us as we welcome Jen Manion, Professor of History and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College, to campus to discuss their book, Female Husbands: A Trans History.
Manion’s history recovers the lives of people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women in the 18th and 19th century US and UK. They were then described as female husbands. They persisted in living as men despite tremendous risk, violence, and punishment. When husbands were outed as being assigned female, the press reported such accounts enthusiastically and frequently, exposing dynamic, contested, and varied stories of love, courage, and loss. This talk explores what female husbands teach us about trans expressions, experiences, and rights then and now.
Copies of Female Husbands: A Trans History can be purchased here.