| Transgender Bibliography |
gender bender--n. a person not conforming to sexual stereotypes.
Transgender--adj. of or being a person whose gender is not readily characterized as exclusively male or female.
Tucson-Pima Public Library has made available this list of books related to transgender issues, transvestism, and transsexuality. No inference should be made that the books listed here are written for the young adult/teen audience.
Author |
Titles |
Description |
|---|---|---|
Amy Bloom, 2002 |
Normal: Transexual CEOs, Cross-Dressing Cops, Hermaphrodites with Attitude |
Three powerful stories that challenge our definitions of gender and sexuality. |
Joanne Meyerowitz, 2002 |
How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States |
A social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. |
Dean Kotula, 2002 |
The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transexuals |
Captivating photographs, personal narratives, and thought provoking essays edited by an FTM. |
edited by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins, 2002 |
GenderQueer: Voices FRom Beyond the Sexual Binary |
Groundbreaking work in Gender Studies including 30 first-person explorations. |
Lisa E. Davis, 2001, Fiction |
Under the Mink: a Novel |
Lesbian noir thriller complete with drag kings and queens. |
Anne Fausto-Sterling, 2000 |
Seeing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality | Discussions of gender behavior differences and sexual identity. |
Alice Domurat Dreger, 2000 |
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex |
A history of hermaphrodism and intersexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
A. Brevard, 2000 |
The Woman I Was Not Born to Be |
Autobiography of transexual B movie actress and one time playboy bunny, Aleshia Brevard. |
Mayra Santos-Febres, 2000 |
Sirena Selena Vestida de Pena, ficción en Español. |
Martha Divine rescues a teenage hustler from poverty and transforms him into the diva Sirena Selena. |
David Ebershoff, 2000 |
The Danish Girl: a Novel |
Set in decadent 1920s Copenhagen, this tender tale of love introduces a man who discovers he's a woman and the woman who will do anything for him. |
Chris Bohjalian, 2000, Fiction |
Trans-Sister Radio: a Novel |
Allison enrolls in a local college course and finds herself falling for her instructor, Dana, a man who later confides that he wants to have a sex-change operation. |
edited by Alice Domurat Dreger, 1999 |
Intersex in the Age of Ethics |
A collection of essays on the history of medical responses to intersexuality with first-person accounts by intersexuals and their families. |
Serena Nanda, 1999 |
Neither Man Nor Woman: the Hijras of India |
A portrait of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women, and their significance in the study of gender categories and human sexual variation. |
text by Holly Brubach, photographs by Michael James O'Brien, 1999 |
Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag |
A New York Times fashion editor travels the globe with a photographer to explore the world of gender-bending. |
Suzanne J. Kessler, 1998 |
Lessons From the Intersexed |
A scholarly work on the medical response to intersexuality, and theories about our culture's two "enforced genders." |
Gianna E.Israel and Donald E. Tarver II, 1997 |
Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts |
An overview of current care standards and practices aimed at professionals in the health and therapeutic fields, but clear and readable by patients, family and friends. |
Leslie Feinberg, 1996 |
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman |
A survey of historical and contemporary figures who have rejected traditional gender roles. |
Title |
Author |
|---|---|
True Selves: Understanding Transexualism… for Family, Friends, Coworkers and Helping Professionals |
Mildred L. Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley, 1996 |
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue |
Leslie Feinberg, 1998 |
Confessions of a Gender Defender: A Psychologist's Reflections on Life among the Transgendered |
Randi Ettner, 1996 |
Crossing: A Memoir |
Deirdre McCloskey, 1999 |
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl |
John Colapinto, 2000 |
Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures |
Sabine Lang, 1998 |
The Queen of Whale Cay |
Kate Summerscale, 1998 |
Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah |
The Lady Chablis with Theodore Bouloukis II, 1996 |
My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife |
Peggy J. Rudd, 1999 |
Transgender Nation |
Gordene Olga MacKenzie, 1994 |
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton |
Diane Wood Middlebrooke, 1998 |
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us |
Kate Bornstein, 1995 |
Vested Interests: Cross-dressing & Cultural Anxiety |
Marjorie Garber, 1997 |
Cross-dressing, Sex and Gender |
Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough, 1993 |
Stone Butch Blues: A Novel |
Leslie Feinberg, 1993 |
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism |
Pat Califia, 1997 |
S/HE |
Minnie Bruce Pratt, 1995 |
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World |
Cataline de Erauso, 1996 (translated by Michele and Gabriel Stepto) |
Who's Really From Venus? The Tale of Two Genders |
Peggy Rudd, 1998 |
Sacred Country, A Novel |
Rose Tremain, 1993 |