The Transgender Issue keyword-modern-literary-criticism clear-headed analysis and historical comparisons

clear-headed analysis and historical comparisons with Afghanistan’s previous occupiers—Britain and the Soviet Union

which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660

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

confronted by the almost ungraspable scale of the oil corporation BP

not simply as a political programme

The Transgender Issue keyword-modern-literary-criticism clear-headed analysis and historical comparisonsIn 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: