Jen Manion

Dr. Jen Manion is an author and professor of History at Amherst College. Dr. Manion is most known for writing the book Female Husbands: A Trans History, which covers historical records of people who were assigned female at birth but who publicly presented as men and married women. The working title for this book was Born in the Wrong Time: Transgender Archives and the History of Possibility, 1770-1870.

Dr. Manion describes themself as a female husband, gender warrior, and gender outlaw.

Books

 * Taking Back the Academy! History of Activism, History as Activism (2004, co-edited with Jim Downs)
 * Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (2015)
 * Female Husbands: A Trans History (2020)

Links

 * Website
 * Twitter
 * Instagram