The Transgender Issue keyword-modern-literary-criticism includes a foreword by the

includes a foreword by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan

not simply as a political programme

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Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity—of a self that could organize the individual’s energy and direct it toward his own happiness—articulated eighteenth-century man’s deepest responses to this brave new world

The Transgender Issue keyword-modern-literary-criticism includes a foreword by theIn this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice. So often, Faye argues, trans people are understood as a side issue, the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized debate which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: