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Susan's latest book, Changing Gender, on the political and intellectual history of the gender concept, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on August 25,  2026.

Susan's  introductory text, Transgender History (Seal Press, 2008, 2017, 2026), is a widely-read point of departure for understanding the post-WWII emergence of a trans movement in the United States, and for situating it in a longer international history of gender variance. The fully revised and updated third edition came out in February 2026.

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When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, edited by McKenzie Wark (Duke University Press, 2024) collects some of Susan’s short works from the 1990s through the 2010s, including one of her best-known pieces,

“My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix,” now considered a foundational text of trans studies. It won the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Studies Book.

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Susan has co-edited the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge, 2005, Lambda Literary Award winner; 2013, Ruth Benedict Book Prize winner), as well as the

Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge, 2022).

In 2021, Susan won the Arcus/Places Prize to produce an original work of public scholarship on the relationship of gender and sexuality to the built environment,

“At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor: Resisting Carceral Power in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District.”

Susan’s earlier works on queer and trans history for popular audiences include Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (Chronicle, 2000) and the co-authored Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle, 1996); both were Lambda Literary Award nominees.

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Many of Susan’s academic publications can be found on her Academia.edu page.