Dialing into the revolution: the bulletin board system -- Out of the cybercloset, into the cyberstreets: gender community spaces on AOL and beyond -- Politics and "petty useless bickering": transgender Usenet and the emergence of "cisgender" -- Always on: information, circulation, and the world wide web -- Becoming "obsolete in your own lifetime": membership declines and generation gaps -- Transgender in the platform era -- Conclusion: owning our history.
Summary:
"The Two Revolutions tells the long history of transgender communities online, reconstructing the various digital networks of transgender activists, cross-dressing computer hobbyists, and others interested in gender nonconformity who laid the foundations for contemporary trans life"-- Provided by publisher.
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