Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
by Kit Heyam
Returned my overdue copy to the library yesterday evening, bought myself a copy this afternoon, and finished it over lunch. Highly, highly, highly recommend. Very accessible and yet very broad and deep history. Does that fabulous thing where we as westerners think we understand what the European morals around gender roles are from studying our history in school but wait! the past is a different country, and it's actually way more strange and different than you assumed.