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'''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''.<ref name="Fea">{{Cite web |title=The Author's Corner with Jen Manion |author=Fea, John |work=the way of improvement leads home |date=12 October 2015 |access-date=21 August 2020 |url= https://thewayofimprovement.com/2015/10/12/the-authors-corner-with-jen-manion/}}</ref>

Dr. Manion describes themself as a female husband<ref name="Maxwell">{{Cite web |title=BOOKS Jen Manion talks 'Female Husbands' and writing process |last1=Maxwell |first1=Carrie |work=Windy City Times |date=15 April 2020 |access-date=21 August 2020 |url= http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/BOOKS-Jen-Manion-talks-Female-Husbands-and-writing-process/68371.html |quote=Manion said, "Somewhere in the middle of this project we realized that the term female husband was the perfect category for me. Some of it is about my [[gender expression]] but it is also about caretaking and responsibility that the term husband connotes." }}</ref>, gender warrior, and gender outlaw.<ref name="Manion-Performance">{{Cite web |title=The Performance of Transgender Inclusion |last=Manion |first=Jen |work=Public Seminar |date=27 November 2018 |access-date=21 August 2020 |url= https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-performance-of-transgender-inclusion/}}</ref>