Rubin and Echols book recs, found in Stryker

In Susan Stryker's famous essay "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" (1994), the first footnote provides information on [emphasis mine]:

"a substantial debate on the status of transgender practices and identities in leshian feminism. H. S. Rubin, in a sociology dissertation in progress at Brandeis University, argues that the pronounced demographic upsurge in the female-to-male transsexual population during the 1970s and 1980s is directly related to the ascendancy within lesbianism of a 'cultural feminism' that disparaged and marginalized practices smacking of an unliberated 'gender inversion' model of homosexuality — especially the butch-femme roles associated with working-class lesbian bar culture. Cultural feminism thus consolidated a lesbian-feminist alliance with heterosexual feminism on a middle-class basis by capitulating to dominant ideologies of gender. The same suppression of transgender aspects of lesbian practice, I would add, simultaneously raised the spectre of male-to-female transsexual lesbians as a particular threat to the stability and purity of nontranssexual lesbian-feminist identity. See [Alice] Echols for the broader context of this debate, and [Janice] Raymond for the most vehement example of the anti-transgender position."
— Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage.” GLQ, Vol. 1 (1994): 237–254.)

Henry Rubin (Brandeis, PhD 1996) went on to publish Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men (Vanderbilt University Press, 2003).

Here's the Echols book that Stryker cites in this essay:

Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.

And she is of course also referring to:

Raymond, Janice G. The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. Boston: Beacon, 1979.

I encourage you not to pay money for The Transsexual Empire so that Raymond does not profit from it. Instead, please see my long essay, "Transphobia since the 1970s," that unpacks the book. It's a 24-minute read on Medium. This link gives you unpaywalled access to my essay.

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