Gender and Its Discontents: The New School Gender and Sexuality Studies Institute spring speaker’s series features Susan Stryker, an award-winning scholar and filmmaker whose historical research, theoretical writing, and creative works have helped shape the cultural conversation on transgender topics since the early 1990s.
She is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books and anthologies, including Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle 1996), Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback(Chronicle 2000), Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Seal Press 2008, 2017), and The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (2013).
The Gender and Its Discontents speaker’s series, is a co-hosted by the Culture and Media department at Eugene Lang College and the Gender and Sexualities Institute at The New School for Social Research, of which the Gender Minor at Lang is a co-partner.
Presented by Culture and Media department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and the Gender and Sexualities Institute at The New School.