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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 28 books in this booklist
£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785927973 | ISBN 10: 1785927973
Edited by Lexie Bean. Foreword and additional pieces by Dean Spade, Nyala Moon, Alex Valdes, Sawyer DeVuyst and Ieshai Bailey. Written by and for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, Written on the Body off ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571341139 | ISBN 10: 0571341136
As one of Britain's best and most loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations a ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781580056892 | ISBN 10: 158005689x
A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronologi ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781406371550 | ISBN 10: 1406371556
Six unwaveringly honest American teens describe what life is like for them as members of the transgender community in this Stonewall Honor book. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780704373983 | ISBN 10: 070437398x
The story of the world’s first female-to-male transgender revised and reissued... Born in 1915 into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, Laura had a difficult start in life. Her mother died when she was 10 days old and she was brought up along with her e ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780234441 | ISBN 10: 1780234449
In the autumn of 2012, the writer and philosopher Maxim Februari, known until then as Marjolijn Februari, announced his intention to live as a man. In The Making of a Man he describes how the news was greeted and how people began to react: with uneas ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780285642591 | ISBN 10: 0285642596
Why are there so many ladyboys in Thailand and so few in the Western world? The ladyboy cabarets of Thailand are a leading tourist attraction but the glamorous and attractive men who are now women are a modern expression of an archaic tradition. Th ... more
View book details£26.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781940207261 | ISBN 10: 1940207266
In Genderqueer, Dave Naz explores the gender spectrum in an entirely new way — by turning his camera on transgender, intersex, pangender, and every shade in between. Helping to add to the current global discussion on the structured nature of ge ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780231157131 | ISBN 10: 0231157134
Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. ... more
View book details£28.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781439907474 | ISBN 10: 1439907471
If feminist studies and transgender studies are so intimately connected, why are they not more deeply integrated? Offering multidisciplinary models for this assimilation, the vibrant essays in Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781573447881 | ISBN 10: 1573447889
Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children to tell their own stories. Often "transitioning" socially and emotionally alongside their children, parents have their own parallel process ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780415888462 | ISBN 10: 0415888468
Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the w ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781933149561 | ISBN 10: 1933149566
FTM, MTF, thirdgender, genderqueer, and other non-traditional identities beyond traditional male and female are included in this often heartwarming, occasionally heartbreaking, truly groundbreaking anthology. From monogamous love, marriage, and pare ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558617476 | ISBN 10: 1558617477
Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious novella-length memoir. With a recent diagnosis of attention deficit di ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781580053082 | ISBN 10: 1580053084
In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780802095398 | ISBN 10: 0802095399
"Christopher A. Shelley's Transpeople displays an impressive amount of research and admirable equanimity in treating different points of view in the fields of trans and queer studies. His interviews with transsexual and transgendered individuals make ... more
View book details£15.95 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780385721974 | ISBN 10: 0385721978
When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psyc ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781580051934 | ISBN 10: 1580051936
Helen Boyd's husband is considering becoming a woman, a choice that would alter both of their lives forever. But in what ways? She's Not the Man I Married is Boyd's intimate and thoughtful exploration of the impact her husband's gender change threate ... more
View book details£32.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780761971641 | ISBN 10: 0761971645
This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid illustrative material. Based on two decades of fie ... more
View book details£26.50 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781894549615 | ISBN 10: 1894549619
Trans/Forming Feminisms is a groundbreaking anthology that challenges us to build a more inclusive transfeminist politics. A must read for students, academics and social and political activists interested in challenging these compelling & challengin ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780814735855 | ISBN 10: 0814735851
In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on t ... more
View book details£13.50 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780807079591 | ISBN 10: 0807079596
Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life. Though happy as a social worker and teacher, he knew something wasn't right. Then he made some changes. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781560255154 | ISBN 10: 1560255153
My Husband Betty is the first book to explore the relationship of crossdressing men and their female partners. Known traditionally as tranvestites, men like Helen Boyd's husband are starting to come out and win the respect of friends, family, and soc ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780747564560 | ISBN 10: 0747564566
What does it mean to be male or female? Is who we are determined by sex or gender? Novelist and psychotherapist Amy Bloom takes us on an intimate and and humourous journey into the world of transsexuals, crossdressers and hermaphrodites, a grou ... more
View book details£19.50 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780226556697 | ISBN 10: 0226556697
A renowned economist and historian, a husband and father, Donald McCloskey (now Deirdre) had crossdressed for years without wanting more. But at age fifty-two a sense that he was denying his real identity grew to the point where he knew he had to bec ... more
View book details£25.50 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780226568102 | ISBN 10: 0226568105
Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people - cross-dressers, drag queens, and transexuals - and their everyday lives. Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780252068256 | ISBN 10: 0252068254
Writing as an insider and an anthropologist, Jason Cromwell presents the first in-depth examination of what it means to be a female-bodied transperson. Through extensive participant observation and open-ended interviews, Transmen and FTMs allows fema ... more
View book details£22.00 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780226461007 | ISBN 10: 0226461009
In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young ... more
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