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Please note I am not rating these books
- I am merely saying they are out there, if you are looking for some resources.
These books are about TS, have a TS character or in some way touch on TS
topics. The arrangement of them on my page has no significance other than
to list them as I became aware of them.
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True Selves : Understanding Transsexualism--For
Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred L. Brown
and Chloe Ann Rounsley, 1996. An explanation of transsexualism in plain language
for families, friends, coworkers and helping professionals. "Without being
accademic, this book gets to the grass roots of what it means to be Gender
Dysphoric, while offering positive and practical means by which friends and
relatives of transsexuals might begin to understand and empathize with the
issues facing them" (reader comment).
ART
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
by Loren Cameron (Photographer), 1996. Striking photographic portraits of female-to-male transsexuals, including the author.
BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dear Sir or Madam: The Autobiography of a Female-To-Male Transsexual
by Mark Rees, 1999. The story of a British transsexual man in his own words.
Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual
by Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot, 1996. The story of a transsexual woman's struggle
to be accepted by the lesbian feminist community.
The Woman I Was Not Born To Be : A Transsexual Journey
by Aleshia Brevard, 2001.
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
by John Colapinto, 2000. A well-researched and gripping account of the reassignment of a young boy's gender.
Crossing: A Memoir
Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2000. A chronicle of Deirdre McCloskey's transformation
from an economist at the and married father of two into the woman she had
always wanted to be.
Dawn: A Charleston Legend
by Dawn Langley Simmons, 1995. The story of a transsexual British writer
who emigrated to America and married a schizophrenic man.
Man Enough to Be Woman
by Jayne County and Rupert Smith, 1996. Memoirs of a flamboyant male-to-female
punk rocker who decided against sex reassignment surgery.
Orlando's Sleep: An Autobiography of Gender
by Jennifer Spry, 1997. Story of an Australian transsexual.
I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's Most Distinguished Transvestite
by Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Jean Hollander (Translator), 1995. The story
of a crossdresser who, during World War II, murdered his father and has lived
openly as a transvestite since.
Cherry Single: A Transvestite Coming of Age
by Valory Gravois, 1997. The story of a crossdresser in San Francisco in the 1970s.
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
by Catalina De Erauso, Michele Stepto (Translator), Gabriel Stepto (Translator),
Catalina De Erauso, Marjorie Garber, Gabri Stepto, 1997. A brief autobiography
of Catalina de Erauso, a nun who spent most of her days as a soldier in the
Spanish army in the mid-1600s.
Passage Through Trinidad: Journal of a Surgical Sex Change
by Claudine Griggs, 1995. A detailed report of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery from the patient's point of view.
Second Skins (A Gender and Culture Reader)
by Jay Prosser, 1998. An array of autobiographical accounts by transsexuals.
CROSSDRESSING
My Husband Wears My Clothes
by Peggy J. Rudd, EdD, 1999. A definition and discussion of crossdressing from the partner's point of view.
Crossdressing With Dignity
by Peggy J Rudd, EdD, 1999. An informative addition to Dr. Rudd's first book.
The Bliss of Becoming One! : Integrating 'Feminine' Feelings into the Male Psyche Mainstreaming the Gender Community
by Rachel Miller, 1996. An attempt to correct inaccurate information about transvestites.
Crossdressers: And Those Who Share Their Lives
by Peggy J. Rudd, 1995. An intimate view of the lives of crossdressers and the significant people in their lives.
Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-Dressing
by Lesley Ferris (Editor), 1993. A collection of essays focusing on cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance.
Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag
by Holly Brubach, Michael James O'Brien (Photographer), Michael J. C'Brien
(Photographer), 1999. An exploration of drag in major cities around the world.
Miss Vera's Finishing School
by Veronica Vera, 1997. An informative textbook for readers who want practical advice about all things femme.
Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Crossdress
by Magnus Hirschfeld, Michael A. Lombardi-Nash (Translator), Vern L. Bullough,
1991. A classic written in 1910 by one of the founders of the study of sexuality.
The Man in the Red Velvet Dress
by J. J. Allen, 1996. A look inside the world of crossdressing from the perspective of a crossdresser.
Transformations : Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them
by Mariette Pathy Allen, 1990. A wide variety of photographs and personal
stories from the point of view of crossdressers, spouses, and children.
EMPLOYMENT
Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide
by Janis Walworth, 1998.
Designed for employers, managers, human resources personnel, implementers
of employee assistance programs, and others in a position to make workplace
decisions about how to handle a transsexual employee's transition from one
sex to the other.
Working with a Transsexual: A Guide for Coworkers
by Janis Walworth, 1999. A short, easy-to-read source of information for people who have a transsexual in their workplace.
Training Tough Topics
edited by Liz Winfeld, 2000. Provides HR professionals and diversity trainers
with materials for training employees about difficult workplace issues, including
transgender.
FAMILY
Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents
by Noelle Howey (Editor), Ellen Samuels (Editor), Margarethe Cammermeyer,
Dan Savage (Preface), 2000. Stories by children of gay, lesbian and transgendered
parents illustrate the difficulties that challenge them in a society that
is not always understanding of differences.
Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones
by Mary Boenke, 1999. Collected experiences of loved ones of transgendered folks.
FICTION
Stone Butch Blues: A Novel
by Leslie Feinberg, 1993. Novel about a butch lesbian's journey into transgenderism.
Prisoner of Gender
by Stephanie Castle, 1997. A transsexual in the system.
Death of a Transvestite
by Edward D. Wood, Ed, Jr. Wood, 1999. The story of a crossdresser on death row whose last wish is to die in drag.
FTM
Transmen and Ftms : Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
by Jason Cromwell, 1999.
Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male-To-Female Transsexuals
by Frank Lewins, 1995. A parent of a male-to-female transsexual writes about transsexualism in Australia.
The Drag King Book
by Del LaGrace Volcano (Photographer), Judith Jack Halberstam, 1999.
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
by Holly Devor, 1997. In-depth interviews and research into the development of female-to-male transsexual identity.
GENDER THEORY
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
by Pat Califia, 1997. A look at transgenderism through the stories of pioneers and contemporary activists.
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender
by Riki Anne Wilchins, 1997.
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
by Kate Bornstein, 1995. A witty look at gender boundaries, fluidity, and definition in lesbian and straight communities.
Gender Blending
by Bonnie Bullough, Vern Bullough, James Elias (editors), 1997. A collection
of papers from the first International Congress on Cross-Dressing, Sex, and
Gender.
Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing
by Richard Ekins, 1997. A presentation of a theory and its implications for
transgender studies and for the analysis of sex and gender.
Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing
by Richard Ekins (Editor), David King (Editor), 1996. A look at the historical
construction of transgender and its legitimacy in modern culture from a primarily
psychoanalytic point of view.
Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior (Perspectives in Sexuality)
by Richard F. Docter, 1988. A study of self-identified crossdressers.
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
by Kate Bornstein, 1997. A collage of simple exercises, quizzes, puzzles,
and essay questions that systematically break down our ingrained ideas about
how women and men should act.
Who's Really from Venus? The Tale of Two Genders
by Peggy J. Rudd, Ed.D., 1998. An attempt to unscramble the mystery of why
both men and women possess masculine and feminine personality components.
S/He - Changing Sex and Changing Clothes (Dress, Body & Culture)
by Claudine Griggs, 1998.
Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
by Dawn Atkins (Editor), 1998. First person accounts of all sorts of body image issues.
Transgender Issue (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 4, No 2, 1998)
by Susan Stryker (Editor), 1998.
Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina De Erauso
by Sherry M. Velasco, 2001. An analysis of the many ways in which the "Lieutenant
Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed by European,
Latin American, and the US cultures from the seventeenth century to the present.
Trans-Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
by Leslie Feinberg, 1999. A good introduction to Feinberg's ideas about the complexities of gender expression.
Reclaiming Genders
Transsexual Grammars at the Fin De Siecle by Kate More (Editor), Stephen Whittle (Editor), 2000.
HISTORY / SOCIOLOGY
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul
by Leslie Feinberg, 1997. An illustrated history of transgendered people in a wide range of centuries and cultures.
Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Between Men--Between Women)
by Evelyn Blackwood (Editor), Saskia E. Wieringa (Editor), 1999.
Female Masculinity
by Judith Halberstam, 1998. A survey of masculine women from the 19th-century to today.
Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures : Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
by Sabrina P. Ramet , 1997. A collection of essays that takes a cross-cultural and cross-historical look at gender change.
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India
by Serena Nanda, 1998. A cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women.
Transgender Nation
by Gordene Olga MacKenzie, 1994. An examination of transsexualism in the context of an intolerant society.
In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage
by Anne Bolin, 1988. An absorbing account of the sociocultural aspects of transition between sexes.
INTERSEX
Intersex in the Age of Ethics
by Alice Domurat Dreger (Editor),
1999. A collection of essays by professionals and intersex activists about
the advisability of early surgical intervention.
Lessons from the Intersexed
by Suzanne Kessler, 1998. A deconstruction of the medical model of gender, with extensive notes, glossary, and bibliography.
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
by Alice Domurat Dreger, 1998. A chronicle of the medical diagnosis and treatment
of hermaphroditism from the perspective of both the subject and the medical
community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Herculine Barbin : Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
by Herculine Barbin, Michel Foucault, Richard McDougall (Translator), 1980.
A hermaphrodite's memoirs discovered by Michel Foucault in the archives of
the French Department of Public Hygiene.
LEGAL
Legal Queeries: Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Legal Studies
by Leslie J. Moran (Editor), Daniel Monk (Editor), Sarah Beresford (Editor), 1999.
Translegalities: A Legal Guide for MTF's
by Spencer Bergstedt, Esq, 1997. Discusses document changes, marriage, divorce,
wills, employment, medical care, and more. May be ordered by sending a check
for $27 ($25 + $2 shipping and handling) to Spencer Bergstedt, Attorney at
Law, 1211 Smith Tower, 506 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104.
Translegalities: A Legal Guide for FTM's
by Spencer Bergstedt, Esq, 1997. Discusses document changes, marriage, divorce,
wills, employment, medical care, and more. May be ordered by sending a check
for $27 ($25 + $2 shipping and handling) to Spencer Bergstedt, Attorney at
Law, 1211 Smith Tower, 506 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104.
MEDICAL
Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts
by Gianna E. Israel, Donald E. Tarver II, MD, 1997.
Masculinizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1997.
Feminizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1999.
Medical, Legal and Workplace Issues for the Transsexual
by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1995.
Physician's Guide to Transgendered Medicine
by Sheila Kirk, MD, 1997.
Identity Management in Transsexualism
by Dallas Denny, MA, 1994. An explanation of how to make name and gender changes on various legal documents.
PSYCHOLOGISTS' PERSPECTIVES
Confessions of a Gender Defender: A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered
by Randi Ettner, 1996. Easily readable vignettes by a psychotherapist who treats transsexual clients.
Current Concepts in Transgender Identity (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Vol 976)
by Dallas Denny (Editor), 1998.
Gender Loving Care: A Guide to Counseling Gender-Variant Clients
by Randi Ettner, George R. Brown, 1999. An overview of gender identity disorders and insights about transgender counseling.
Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference
by Katrina Fox, Tracie O'Keefe, 1997. A transsexual clinical hypnotherapist,
psychotherapist & counsellor shares her special knowledge of transsexualism.
Transsexuals: Candid Answers to Private Questions
by Gerald Ramsey, PhD, 1996. Information about transsexualism presented in a question-and-answer format.
TRANSSEXUALISM
The Transsexual's Survival Guide: To Transition & Beyond
by Joann Altman Stringer, 1990. A compendium of practical advice on transition-related issues.
Changing Sex
by Bernice L. Hausman, 1995. A historical narrative and bibliography of early transsexual story and theory.
The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
by Kim Elizabeth Stuart, 1991. A clinical study of transsexualism.
The Transsexual's Survival Guide II: To Transition & Beyond for Family, Friends, & Employers
by Joanne Altman Stringer, 1992.
YOUTH
Mom, I Need To Be A Girl
by Just Evelyn, 1998. A great book for any parent of a transgendered child of any age written by a loving mom.
Social Services With Transgendered Youth
by Gerald P. Mallon (Editor), 2000. The thoughts and perspectives of articulate
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