Susan Stryker | |
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Born | Susan O'Neil Stryker 1961 (age 62–63) |
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Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Oklahoma (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Subject | Gender studies LGBT culture LGBT rights in the United States Women's studies |
Notable works | The Transgender Studies Reader (2006) |
Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award[1] San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Award[2] |
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Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961), best known as Susan Stryker,[3] is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and sexuality and trans realities. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. Stryker is the author of several books and a founding figure of transgender studies as well as a leading scholar of transgender history.[4][5]