* Designates ones we recommend and or have read, this does not imply endorsement and/or agreement with the content.
50 years of Sex Changing: A Social History of Transformation in the late 20th Century
by Stephen Whittle
A Provider’s Handbook on Culturally Competent Care
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Population. Second Edition. Oakland, CA: Kaiser Permanente National Diversity Council and Kaiser Permanente National Diversity, 2004. Download available from http://www.glma.org/
Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality:
by Tully, B. London. Whiting and Birch. 1992 The gender identities of over 200 men and women who have petitioned for surgical sex reassignment of their sexual identity.
* As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
by John Colapinto Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a mesmerizing story of a medical tragedy and its traumatic results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following a botched circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant son, Bruce, as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next 14 years trying to transform David into a her. Brenda's childhood reads as one filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are present on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain is caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man attempting to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant treatments.
Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor, it's difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more than willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts of his parents, twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily female are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do "right" while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda makes the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name David and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments. David's ultimately successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close family relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public--bring an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest segment of the longtime nature/nurture controversy, and the interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the gender he was meant to be. --Jill Lightner
* A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
* The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
* A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, and Happiness
by Dave Pelzer, One reader said about A Child Called It, "it was with the heaviest of hearts that I turned the last page of Dave Pelzer's account of his experiences as a child from the ages of 4-12. The horrific abuse that he suffered at the hands of his Mother is shocking and painful to read. I finished it virtually at one sitting since it was almost impossible to put down, although at times, were it not so utterly compelling, it would have been equally difficult to pick up again. That David survived his terrible ordeal at all is almost beyond belief. That he survived and managed to triumph is nothing short of a miracle.
A previous reviewer described this book as "not well written". I think this misses the point. Dave Pelzer is not a writer. He is simply someone who has been brave enough to share with the world the terrible things that happened to him and he has to be commended for it. It's true to say that the book is not high on decorative language and snappy narrative. Nevertheless, I would challenge any reasonable person to put it down unaffected, unchanged and not weeping tears of shame that in our so-called civilised society, something like this could happen to a child. It's unbearably sad and completely unforgettable. A MUST READ!"
This is the first of three books that describe Dave's trek back into the world where abuse was not an everyday occurrence. Once done with the first book you are left emotionally drained and only the knowledge that Dave indeed survived keeps you going onto the next. Thank the Creator that there was indeed a next book and that Dave indeed is a survivor.
Becoming a Visible Man
by Jamison Green, Nashville, ISBN: 082651457X Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. Transgender activist Green discusses the medical, social and legal aspects of gender change within the context of his own experiences.
Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment.
For more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual people—as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as others—enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done.
Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green’s own experiences—including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgery—the book examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, Becoming a Visible Man also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one’s life honestly, openly, and passionately.
Beyond Diversity Day: A Q & A on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Schools (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)
by Arthur Lipkin, Roman & Littlefield Publishers (December 1, 2003, ISBN: 074252034X
Beyond Diversity Day is a handbook for teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, parents, and students who want to understand and affirm sexuality differences; promote and protect the well-being of all students; and reduce bigotry, self-hatred, and violence. In question-and-answer format, Arthur Lipkin offers advice to nurture positive relationships among glbt youth, their families, and the schools; welcome glbt families in the school community; support glbt educators; and incorporate sound and appropriate glbt-related curricula across disciplines. Written by a veteran high school and university teacher and staff developer, Beyond Diversity Day weaves sound scholarship with vivid real-world examples from classrooms and the media. It offers a compelling blueprint for working with diverse students and for improving schools.
Bisexuality and Transgenderism: Intersexions of the Others
by Jonathan Alexander, Karen Yescavage, editors. Co-published simultaneously as “Journal of bisexuality,” Volume 3, Number 3-4, 2003. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, c2003. Academics and activists explore the B and T of GLBT, challenging the Gay and Lesbian communities to be more inclusive. Community is a funny thing. A reader might look at that phrase, "LGBT community" and think that it were a unified entity. Others might consider the history of the expression, about how it has tried to pull together identities that were previously related but set apart. Thus Gay was joined by Lesbian, and eventually Bisexual and Transgendered were brought in.
Body Alchemy
by Loren Cameron, Transsexual Portraits. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1996. Stunning photographs of male-to-female transsexuals accompanied by short personal comments.
Both Sides Now: One Man's Journey Through Womanhood
by Dhillon Khosla Tarcher (March 16, 2006) ISBN: 1585424722
Boys and Girls: The Development of Gender Roles
by Carole R. Beal, This analysis of gender follows the evolution of development from child to adolescent. Primarily aimed at students in the field of developmental psychology, the book focuses sequentially on boys' and girls' early development, the difference between group identity and individual identity, and the impact of social class and ethnicity on gender development. 1994; $38.84; 359 pp; ISBN 0-07-004533-X; McGraw-Hill, Inc., P.O. Box 548, Blacklick, OH 43004; 800/262-4729; FAX: 614/759-3644; E-mail: customerservice@mcgraw-hill.com; Web-site: http://www.books.mcgraw-hill.com
Brain Gender
by Melissa Hines; New York, Oxford University Press, 2004, 307 pages, $38.25
Brain Gender is a fascinating book, clearly written and well organized. The author, Melissa Hines, professor of psychology and
current director of the Neuroendocrinology Research Unit at London's City University, traces her interest in sex differences and their
origins to her freshman year in college, when she and other women, the first to be admitted to Princeton, were assigned to "two-man
rooms" and were routinely addressed as "Mr." by unthinking preceptors. Hines trained at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin in
personality theory, developmental psychology, and neuroendocrinology. Brain Gender reflects not only the author's
mastery of developmental biology—particularly in relation to hormonal influences on brain development and plasticity,
developmental anatomy, and sex-related behaviors in multiple species—but also her understanding of the social and cultural implications of sex and gender differences for the human species.
Hines reviews carefully and lucidly the research to date on sex differences in humans, starting with genital ambiguity and its
relationship to genetic and hormonal abnormalities. She establishes that gonadal hormones play a major role in tissue organization and the structural development of genitalia in human sexual differentiation; she then examines the influence of gonadal hormones
on neural and behavioral development in other mammals. Hines supplies an admirable summary of intriguing animal research
illustrating both the "organizing" and the "activating" nature of hormones. For example, female rats located "downstream" in terms of
uterine blood flow from male littermates show as adults more male-typical behaviors, such as mounting, than females
located "upstream." for more see http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/1325
Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women
Anne Moir and David Jessel Brain Sex, with its intriguing title, explores the exact differences- biological and psychological- that divide the male and female sexes. It explores the way humans are expected to live by the stereotypes prescibed for them at birth by society.
Why are men and women so different? Why do we think so differently from one another and seem to live in completely different worlds most of the time? The answer lies in biology- the way males and females are constructed. The book then goes on to talk about male/ female relationships.
This is a book that will have you thinking about its contents long after you've put it down; I had to read it several times in order to comprehend the full scope of this book. Brain Sex is a book that every person- man and women- should have on their nightstand. Its a great reference, and; although a bit out of date, is a great resource to understanding the depth and scope of male/ female relationships. Kasthu
* By the grace of God
by Lee Frances Heller and Friends ISBN 0-9707947-0-3 Also available on line at http://207.152.67.6/gog/
Lee Frances Heller, who died May 19, 2000 at age 81, devoted the last fifteen years of her life to sharing God's love with persons who, like herself, had been scorned and rejected by the established religious leadership. On an ancient typewriter in her Jackson, Mississippi home, she began her newsletter, The Grace and Lace Letter, with the question, "Is God Against Us?" Her passion, sincerity, and wit left the reader certain that God is indeed not against persons like Lee Frances Heller -- persons who happen to be transgendered.
Lee's essays were praised and appreciated, and other transgendered Christian writers joined her in contributing their viewpoints to the Grace and Lace Letters. Over the years Lee heard from dozens of transsexual persons and crossdressers who had nearly lost their faith, but found new hope through her publications. By the time of her death, Lee's works had a readership of hundreds of Christian transgendered persons as well as their family, friends and clergy.
By The Grace of God is a compilation of essays from Lee Frances Heller, Terri Lynn Main, Dr. Rebecca Anne Allison, and other transgendered Christian writers. These essays were published in the Grace and Lace Letter, and its later successor, the Christian Love Letter. It is our prayer that Lee's life and witness will live on through this book, a continuing testimony to our God who loves us even when others may reject us. --Becky Allison
Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore by Randy P. Conner, David Hatfield Sparks, Mariya Sparks, Randy P. Connor, editors. An essential reference work for all GLBTQ collections. London; Herndon, VA: Cassell, 1997.
Changes: Understanding the Gender Role Transition
Dianna Cicotello
Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender
by Bernice L. Hausman
Through reconstruction of current thought on transsexualism as a disorder of gender identity, Hausman demonstrates how current medical advances make the development of new theories possible. Chapters include "Plastic Ideologies and Plastic Transformations," "Managing Intersexuality and Producing Gender," "Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiographies," and "Semiotics of Sex, Gender, and the Body."
1995; $17.95; 245 pp; ISBN 0-8223-1692-7; Duke University Press, P. O. Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660; 919/687-3612; FAX: 919/688-4574; E-mail: mbrodsky@acpub.duke.edu ; Web-site: http://www.duke.edu/web/dupress
Changing Channels: A Christian Response to the Transvestite and Transsexual
by Revd. David Horton
* Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography
by Christine Jorgensen This autobiography details the life of Christine Jorgensen whose dignity and courage set a proud example for the thousands of transsexuals who have followed her path. 1967; 332 pp; out of print; available in libraries.
Clinical Management of Gender Identity Disorder in Children and Adults.
by Blanchard and Steiner. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. 1990 From Book News, Inc.Ten contributions examine the various syndromes of gender identity disturbance in males and females. Case studies are provided as well as descriptions of different treatment approaches and their effectiveness. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Constructing Gendered Bodies
by Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Linda McKie, editors. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2001. Part III: The Moral and Medical Regulation of Sex, Sexualities and Gender includes chapters on transsexuality and intersexuality. Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues in a variety of settings ranging from the workplace and leisure industry to social arenas of moral and medical regulation.
* Conundrum
by Jan Morris Conundrum is a classic of the small but powerful field of transgender writing. What places this book at the top of the list are the fame of the author, the stellar prose, the non-sensational style of the telling, the humor, and the many layers and levels of love that carry Morris' passage from man to woman through to completion. Peggy Vincent
* Confessions of a Gender Defender: : A Psychologist's Reflections on Life Among the Transgendered
by Randi Ettner Well written book that brings fourth the human compassion, suffering and the enduring spirit. If your looking for a way to educate yourself or othrs on gender diversity here is the place to start.
Counseling in Genderland A Guide for You and Your Transgendered Client
Neila Miller, MS, LCSW, LMHC ISBN: 0962626260
Covering: the Hidden Assulton our Civil Rights
by Kenji Yoshino Random House $24.95; 304 pages
Cross-Purposes: On Being Christian and Crossgendered
Vanesa S.
Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian
by Vanessa Sheridan, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2001 Review by Jennifer M. Phillips
It is refreshing to encounter a book that does not regard transgender as a plight or diagnosis, but rather as a healthy variant of human being, and a gift and blessing to the assortment of people whose sexuality and gender experience it describes. Sheridan is a Christian, and is unashamed in saying, "The Christian Church is my spiritual heritage and I love it with all my heart."(xiii) From this vantage point she claims Jesus the outsider and rebel as friend and example, and the God who led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt as the one who calls transgendered people to throw off oppression and cross over into the new "Kin-dom" of divine life. "God created us differently gendered people," she writes, "and because God did so, it means that we are good. Even more, it means that our gender variant lives are holy and our souls are beloved by God." See more at: http://www.thewitness.org/agw/phillipsbkrev071702.html
* Crossing - A Memoir
Deirdre N. McCloskey I read this book out of curiosity right after I read J. Michael Bailey's landmark scholarly study, The Man Who Would be Queen. I find McCloskey's memoir to be complementary and reinforcing---wonderfully well written, insightful, humourous, and honest. McCloskey is a consummate scholar, a dispassionate writer, and an astute observer of human behavior. I recommend this book to one and all readers. Kudos! Jennifer
* Current concepts in TG identity
Dallas Denny, editor. New York: Garland Pub., 1998. Contributors explore historical, social, medical, personal, and theoretical aspects of transgenderism.
Dawn: A Charleston Legend
by Dawn Langley Simmons, Charleston, SC: Wyrick, c1995. Raised as a boy in England, Dawn had sex reassignment surgery in the United States, and created a stir in Charleston society by marrying a black man and having a baby.
Dear Sir or Madam
by Mark Nicholas Rees, The Autobiography of a Female-to-Male Transsexual. London; New York: Cassell, 1996.
Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality
by Nikki R. Keddie, Editor, This book concentrates on two central theoreticians, Michel Foucault and Sigmund Freud, to examine the effect of their theories on contemporary and past perceptions of sexuality. Essays from the author's book, Contention, range from discussions and responses on procreation and female oppression to the male search for gender identity. (This publication also debates the key issues relating to sexuality in a format that is ideal for those involved in forensics.)
1996;$18.95; 331 pp; ISBN 0-8147-4655-1; New York University Press, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012; 800/996-6987; FAX: 212/995-3833
* Dr Selma Help
by Selma Massey ISBN: 1410757188
Early Modern Hermaphrodites
by Ruth Gilbert, Sex and Other Stories. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Gilbert examines the ways in which intersexed individuals were viewed medically, erotically, legally, and literarily in Britain from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People.
Joan Roughgarden. viii + 474 pp. University of California Press, 2004. $27.50.
Evolution's Rainbow is Joan Roughgarden's Apologia, an extraordinary book that entwines a radical attack on the Darwinian concept of sexual selection with a personal narrative written from her perspective as a transgendered woman (until six years ago, she was Jonathan Roughgarden). The book is thought–provoking, even at times profound, although some of its arguments are infuriatingly extraneous or superficial. Some critics will dismiss it as a book with an agenda—polemic tainted by the author's unwillingness to detach her scientific analyses from her personal experience. To take that narrow view, however, does grave injustice to Roughgarden's ambitious undertaking.
Feelings
Stephanie Castle
Female to Male Transsexuals in Society
by Holly Devor, FTM: , Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. Dr. Devor presents a sympathetic and easily understandable portrait of FTMs as they learn about themselves and their identity, through interviews she conducted.
* Feminizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
by Sheila Kirk, M.D. This book, written for the male-to-female transgendered person, presents information based on medical research and reports to the medical community. Dr. Kirk emphasizes that "good health is paramount . . . anything that risks good health is foolhardy and irrational." Topics include: endocrinology; anatomy and biochemistry; function of the sexual hormones; complications of hormonal use; medical evaluations--the initial examination and periodic monitoring; and frequently asked questions. She also writes about masculine hormonal therapy as well as medical, legal, and workplace issues.
1996; $14.95 + $2.00 shipping and handling; 84 pp; ISBN 1-887796-01-0; Together Lifeworks, P.O. Box 38114, Blawnox, PA 15238-9998; 412/781-1092; FAX: 415/781-1096; E-mail: sheilakirk@aol.com .
Finding the Real Me
Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox, editors. True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity. . San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2003. Transgendered individuals talk about their personal experiences in this anthology.
From Female to Male
by Louis Sullivan, The Life of Jack B. Garland. Boston: Alyson Publications, Inc., 1990. Garland, born a female, was a wellknown cross-dresser and self-identified male who lived in San Francisco from the late 1880s until his death in the 1930s.
From Man to Woman
by Richard F Docter, The Transgender Journey of Virginia Price. Northridge, CA: Docter Press, 2004. Prince lived as a man for much of his life, publishing a magazine for transvestites and starting support groups, while opposing transgender surgery.
From Masculine to Feminine and All Points In Between
by Jennifer Anne Stevens. This book is addresses both TV and TS issues quite well. It is copyright 1990 and is published by Different Path Press, Box 251, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02238, ISBN: 0-9626262-0-1
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond, Morty Diamond, editor. San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2004. Diamond gathers the stories of a group of female-to-male transsexuals and self-defined gender-queers in this moving anthology.
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
by Holly Devor ISBN: 0253212596 Indiana University Press (March 1, 1999) "Writing with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects' interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves." - Jamison "James" Green
Gay / Lesbian / Bisexual / Transgendered Public Policy Issues
Wallace K. Swan, DPA (Ed.)
Gay Persecution Rising Around the World
by Kate Kelland See quote from Archbishop Tutu below
Gene Worship: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain, and Gender
by Gisela T. Kaplan ISBN:1590510348 2003, Other Press (NY) As a counterbalance to the increasingly popular genetic explanations for human behavior put forward by evolutionary psychologists, the authors draw from several fields of research to examine how much of what is claimed about gender differences and sexual orientation is verifiable, what other explanations could be given, and why the public should remain skeptical about the occlusive dominance of genes. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Gender Advertisements
by Erving Goffman Harper & Row, 1979 This unique book does for nonverbal behavior what Lakoff does for language. Goffman, the late sociologist, gathered countless print advertisements to illustrate that women were depicted in ways that constituted "the ritualization of subordination." With his acute eye for the patterns of physical detail and placement, Goffman showed that aspects of women's behavior we take for granted (such as head tilts, smiling and knee-bends) make us likable -- and childlike.
(Deborah Tannen is University Professor and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.)
Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality
by by Holly Devor Based on a compilation of interviews of 15 women who reject traditional feminity yet maintain their female identity, the book examines the social construction of gender. Devor takes the perspective that gender is a social distinction which is different but not entirely removed from biological sexuality. The book examines the impact of contemporary gender distinctions on women. 1989; $14.95; 178 pp; ISBN 0-253-31637-5; Indiana University Press, 601 N. Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404-3797; 800/842-6796; FAX: 800/842-6796; E-mail: iup@indiana.edu
Gender Blending
by Bullough, Bullough, & Elias Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997. A collection of academic
papers on cross-dressing and transgenderism, with some interest for the general reader.
Gender Dysphoria: Development, Research, Management
Betty W. Steiner (Ed.) ISBN: 0306416948 1984
Gender: In Cross-Cultural Perspective, 2nd Edition
by Caroline B. Brettell & Carolyn Sargent, Editors, This collection of essays examines cultural constructions of gender through human evolution as well as the impact of gender on historical change. The anthology approaches gender through a cross-cultural and comparative analysis. 1996; $28.00; 504 pp.; ISBN 0-13-533613-9; Prentice-Hall, Inc., A Simon & Schuster Company, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632. Orders copies from: Order Processing Center, P.O. Box 11071, Des Moines, IA 50336; 800/947-7700; FAX 800/835-5327
* Gender Identity A SIECUS Annotated Bibliography of Organizations and Available Materials
Gender identity plays a large part in the development of an individual's sexuality. In fact, A Descriptive Dictionary and Atlas of Sexology (R. T. Francoeur, editor, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1991, 241.) defines gender identity as "the internalized sense of being male, female, or having an ambivalent sexual status; the self-awareness of knowing to which sex one belongs."
The purpose of this bibliography is to address the complicated and multi-faceted issues related to the subject of gender identity. The literature is vast and diverse. As a result, this bibliography focuses not only on such specific subjects as transgenderism and transvestism but also on anthologies and books that debate and analyze the social construction of gender. For consistency, the bibliography uses the word cross-dresse in all references to this subject (rather than the variations cross dresser or crossdresser).
SIECUS does not sell or distribute any of these publications. They are, however, available for use in our Mary S. Calderone Library. For those interested in purchasing certain books, each annotation contains contact and price information. Copies of this bibliography are available for purchase from the SIECUS Publications Department. Costs are: 1-4 copies, $3.00 each; 5-49 copies, $2.75 each; 50-100 copies, $2.50 each; 100 or more copies, $2.25 each. SIECUS is located at 130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350, New York, NY 10036-7802; 212/819-9770; FAX 212/819-9776; E-mail: SIECUS@siecus.org.
This bibliography was written and compiled by Amy Levine and Caroline Kelley of the SIECUS staff.
Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Children and Adolescents.
by Zucker, Kenneth J. Guilford Press. 1995. An in-depth resource on the diagnosis, assessment, etiology, and treatment of gender identity disorder in children and adolescents, reviewing recent clinical work and research in the field. After an overview of the disorder, a section on young children explores the disorder in both boys and girls, looking at toy and role play and anatomic dysphoria as well as biological research on the disorder. The second section focuses on adolescents, transvestic fetishism, and homosexuality. Integrates information from the largest sample of children with the disorder ever studied, as well as studies of adults. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Gendermaps: Social Constructionism, Feminism, and Sexosophical History.
by Money, John Continuum Pub. 1995. Money (pediatrics, medical psychology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) introduced the concept of gender role in 1955. Here, he explains the concept of gendermaps for general readers, exploring the history of gender differentiation and its impact on contemporary, social constructionist explanations of male and female. He discusses four categories of gender coding, feminism before and after gender, and mismatched gender maps. Can you trust a man who equates men's pornography with women's romance novels? Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
* Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
by Kate Bornstein Marcy "Kate Bornstein has written a fabulous book about what it means to be differently gendered. Her experience of being male, being female, being something else entirely, has lead her to ask the question "What is gender, anyway?" This book is the beginning of an answer to that question." New York: Routledge, 1994. Male-to-female transsexual Bornstein challenges the gender binary in this auto-biographical work.
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
by Barrie Thorne Drawing on her daily observations from elementary schools in the United States, Thorne provides innovative insights into how children construct and experience gender in school. Defining gender identity as a social process involving groups of children, this book presents the argument that age, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and social class influence the organization and meaning of gender and that it shifts with social contex . 1995; 237 pp; $15.95; ISBN 0-8135-1923-3; Rutgers University Press, Building 4161, P.O. Box 5062, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5062; 800/446-9323; FAX 908/445-1974; E-mail dtgross@rci.rutgers.edu .
* Gender queer Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary
by Joan Nestle (Editor), Riki Wilchins (Editor), Clare Howell (Editor) Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity.
Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths Of Male & Female
by Phyllis Burke This book examines three major aspects of gender: behavior, appearance, and science. Through analysis of current research in psychology, genetics, neurology, and sociology, Burke challenges the many myths of America's gender system of male and female. She also addresses the popular diagnosis in children of gender identity disorder. 1996; $23.95; 308pp; ISBN 0-385-47717-1; Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 2451 S. Wolfe Road, Des Plaines, IL 60018; 800/323-9872; Web site: http://www.bdd.com .
Guilty by Gender
Hap Hanchett ASIN: B0006R85NG
Health Care Without Shame
by Dr. Charles Moser, A Handbook for the Sexually Diverse and their Caregivers. San Francisco, CA: Greenery Press, c1999. An essential purchase for all GLBTQ collections.
Healthy People 2010 Companion Document for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health. San Francisco, CA: Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (459 Fulton St., Suite 107, San Francisco 94102), 2001. http://www.glma.org/policy/hp2010/index.shtml
Hermaphrodeities
by Raven Kaldera, The Transgender Spirituality Workbook. [Philadelphia]: Xlibris Corp., 2001.
* Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex
by Alice Domurat Dreger Harvard Univ Pr; ; (March 2000) ISBN 0674001893 From The New England Journal of Medicine ® February 11, 1999 The Massachusetts Medical Society. The condition of hermaphroditism has been recognized since antiquity. The term derives from the Greek legend of the joining of Hermaphroditos and the nymph Salmacis into a single form that was neither male nor female, but both. Culturally, men and women are distinct, yet their sexual structures arise from common bipotential precursors. This fact explains how intersexuality can result from aberrations in the sexual-differentiation pathway.
In Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Alice Domurat Dreger chronicles 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. She traces the advancement of medical technology and its effects on the classification of persons with intersexual disorders. The book covers the period during which sexual identity was being questioned in both scientific and medical theory and the ideas of sex, sexuality, and gender had not yet become distinct from one another.
During this time, one's "true sex" was felt to be based solely on the presence of a testis or an ovary. The number of people recognized with hermaphroditism was increasing, in part because of improved access to gynecologic care and more reporting of medical findings in the literature. This increase led to the need for criteria to define maleness and femaleness in order to keep the two sexes distinct. Also during this time, physicians emerged as the authorities in determining sex and anatomical identity. To show the effect of cultural differences in the management of intersexual disorders, Dreger has chosen to study hermaphrodites in Britain and France.
Dreger uses case histories of people with intersexual conditions and describes the responses of their physicians to illustrate why definitions of true sex were thought to be necessary. She explores the social, economic, and political ramifications of having a "mistaken" sex. In her book, the term "hermaphrodite" is used loosely to describe someone with ambiguous genitalia or someone whose external genitalia do not correspond with the internal gonads; she does not necessarily use it to imply true hermaphroditism (the presence of both testicular and ovarian tissue).
An epilogue has been added to the book to cover the treatment of intersexual conditions today and to show how history influences present-day management. Unfortunately, Dreger's description of present-day management is not up to date. Over the past few years, the voice of people with intersexual conditions has grown louder through autobiographies and the formation of support groups. Dreger has included in the epilogue the histories of people with intersexual conditions who were dissatisfied with their care.
Dreger believes that the current management of intersexual disorders remains very paternalistic. She states:||Doctors typically make decisions about sex assignment with little genuine discussion with the parents. Parents who will not consent to recommendations are subject to pressure, and even those parents who do agree to the surgeries performed do not realize that they are, by implication, consenting to the doctor's right to choose the sex of their child on the basis of a particular anatomically demanding psychosocial theory of gender identity.
She concludes with a plea for "an honest conversation" between physicians and parents. Currently, though, physicians do openly discuss with parents everything known about intersexual conditions. Patricia Y. Fechner, M.D. Dreger's final chapter explores the plight of the intersexed in contemporary America. If we are truely to "celebrate diversity," we are going to have to become educated about the millions of intersexed in this country and become sensitive to their issues... because they are issues that concern us all.
Reviewer: Sherri Groveman (aissg@aol.com) from San Diego, California The history of the clinical management of intersex has previously been relegated to medical texts- texts which illuminate technologies to "treat" intersex while ignoring the experience of the recipients of such protocols. Alice Dreger's book unveils the identities of those who heretofore have appeared in textbook photographs and illustrations with their genitals in sharp focus but with their faces obscured. In the process, Dreger reveals how medicine has often tragically subordinated what is between the patient's ears and in the patient's heart to what is between the patient's legs. While physicians would be well-served to incorporate the information and perspectives Dreger offers, the book should appeal to a far larger audience because it challenges the reader's assumption that sex is like Carvel (two flavors only) when in reality it is Baskins & Robbins." CASE STUDIES welcome here:
Herculine Barbin
Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite by Herculine Barbin. New York: Pantheon Books, c1980. The diary of a French hermaphrodite who committed suicide after being forced to live as a man, and separated from the woman he loved.
* Hermophdite and the medical invention of sex
Hidden in Plain Sight
by L Townsend Writers Club Press 2002
Leslie lives life to the fullest. She is loved and respected by her family and friends. Throughout her life, she has achieved many goals including working as a model, getting married and entertaining audiences as a stand-up comedienne. However, all the while, Leslie has been hiding a secret about her past. Always fearful of being rejected and ostracized if the truth came to light, Leslie kept her past just that, the past.
But secrets weigh heavy on her mind and after years of lies and covering her tracks through career pursuits and relationships, she has decided to tell the truth about her transsexual history and the struggle to live with the legacy of her decision.
This story follows the journey of a child in confusion, an adolescent in turmoil and a young adult, who embarks on a quest for wholeness. It is a story of breaking gender barriers and of crossing the chasm from male to female.
High school boy's secret is that he's really a girl
Reviewed by Kate Pavao, Today's young-adult book market is exploding with a slew of new titles about growing up as a gay, lesbian or questioning teen, or as a kid with gay parents or family members. Now Julie Anne Peters pushes the YA market into a new arena with her groundbreaking novel, Luna (Little, Brown and Company; 248 pages; $16.95; ages 15-up), about a transgender high school senior. The book is far from perfect, but it is notable for being the first of its kind, and for providing teens -- and their parents -- with an opportunity to learn about a complicated issue. In the novel, snide narrator Regan is a high school loner whose popular older brother Liam has a big secret: He is really a girl who, as he says, "was born in the wrong body." At home and at school he dresses in "boy role," but when night falls, he comes into Regan's room to get dressed, apply makeup and put on a wig, becoming Luna, the name he has chosen for the girl he truly is. Now, Liamtells his sister it's time to set Luna free; he's going to "transition" into Luna full time. See: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/27/RVGOH773TQ1.DTL
* How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
by Joanne Meyerowitz, If you are going to read one TS book this year, let it be this one. The sub-title is "A History of Transsexuaity in the United States" and it starts not so long ago, with a little review of where we were at the turn of the last century. Through the early operations in Germany it takes the reader, with a stress on not only historical data but the prevailing philosophical reasons for or against SRS at the various times. These flow out chronologically and are then compared, the great medical debate that has raged over our lives. Unexpected, there is a section of illustrations from the fifties which is about the only light material in the book.
It gives a new perspective on the great debates in the medical circles, the mutilation vs. patient needs which still runs beneath our lives when we try to find a doctor. I was unaware that the University of Buffalo had been sued over mayhem and settle out of court, leading credence to that old story. Based on that supposed illegality, why we ended up in Tunisia and Mexico, and Germany, and the real impact of Christine Jorgensen. Using social history and the follow dialogue of the psychiatrists on one side and the endocrinologists on the other, it is a wonder that they now cooperate enough to do is at all.
I got this book Monday and have been reading it non-stop , so interesting is the text on *our* history. I really recommend it... Hugs, Willow
Identity Management in Transsexualism
Dallas Denny ISBN: 1880715074
* In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage
by Anne Bolin This work examines transsexualism through an anthropological lens, looking at 16 male transsexuals and the "rites of passage" they undergo in the process of becoming women. The book contains a literature review in the appendix and an extensive bibliography. Contemporary Sociology says "In Search of Eve is an absorbing account of the sociocultural aspects of gender transition. . . . Bolin has produced a carefully crafted, clearly written monograph which scholars of both sexuality and gender can profitably read. I would recommend it also for upper-level students in such courses. The book contains many fascinating insights and new findings." 1988; $14.95; 210 pp; ISBN 0-89789-115-5; Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06681; 800/225-5800; FAX: 203/222-1502; E-mail: custserv@greenwood.com ; Web-site: http://www.greenwood.com .
* Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self
by Sharon E. Preves Rutgers University Press (June 2003) ISBN: 0813532280 "With sensitivity and solid critical analysis, INTERSEX AND IDENTITY brings to the fore the long-ignored voices of people with intersex conditions. This is an important and accessible book for all, including "patients,"parents, clinicians, activists, scholars, and novice students."-Cheryl Chase, Founder of the Intersex Society of North America
"In INTERSEX AND IDENTITY Preves has produced the most up-to-date, comprehensive account available of what it is like to grow up and live with a body that isn't simply male or female. This work is compassionate, intelligent, and beautifully written, and promises to be well read and highly valued."-Alice Dreger, author of HERMAPHRODITES AND THE MEDICAL INVENTION OF SEX
* Intersex Child (Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, Vol 8)
by J. Jasso, Nathalie Josso: S. Karger Pub (May 1981) ISBN: 380550909X
* Intersex in the Age of Ethics (Ethics in Clinical Medicine Series)
by Alice Domurat Dreger: University Publishing Group (Jun 1999) ISBN: 1555721001 From The New England Journal of Medicine, May 11, 2000
What is the relation among anatomy, sexual identity, and sexual practices? The authors of Intersex in the Age of Ethics argue that an ethical clinical response to intersexuality (i.e., the intermingling, in varying degrees, of male and female sex characteristics) will be possible only when this question can be answered on the basis of well-documented, long-term case studies of the lives of intersexual persons. To date, this information has not been collected and clinical practice is based on ill-founded assumptions. This book reflects the search for an interim solution. It combines reviews of changing medical responses to intersexual persons with first-person
accounts by intersexual people and their families. The 21 chapters develop a convincing case for the position that the relations among anatomy, sexual identity, and sexual practices are not rigidly fixed, but can vary in highly personal, unpredictable ways. The authors argue that, until better information becomes available, the least damaging course of action is to delay medical intervention until a person is in a position to make an informed decision about the options.
Social and medical attitudes toward people who do not conform to conventional categories of sex are influenced by our understanding of how anatomy influences social behavior. Until recently, the assumption in Western societies has been that anatomy determines sexual identity and, therefore, sexual preferences. In this view, there is a direct relation between a particular kind of body and both a particular sexual identity and a particular set of sexual practices. Sexual identity and practice follow from the body in a predictable and consistent manner. Given this assumption, it is hardly surprising that so much medical attention has been given to categorizing, defining, and reshaping intersexual bodies. The understanding is that once these unruly bodies have been made to conform, appropriate identities and practices will follow seamlessly.
In Victorian times, this shaping of the intersexual body was achieved by a kind of "conceptual surgery." The gonads were designated as the defining anatomical characteristic, and all other considerations were deemed irrelevant. If ovaries were present, the person was defined as female and would be expected to have only male sexual partners; if testes were present, the person was defined as male and would be expected to have only female sexual partners. By defining a sex for each ambiguous body, appropriate behavior was established for each person with such a body. The way in which such people experienced their bodies, identities, or sexual desires was not considered. Bodies mattered only to the extent that they were vehicles for ensuring that a person behaved in socially appropriate ways. As the range of clinical techniques expanded through the 20th century, the conceptual reduction of intersexual bodies was replaced by surgical reduction. The bodies of intersexual infants were carved to fit the social categories these children would be required to inhabit as adults. The birth of an intersexual baby became a "medical emergency," and the infant's ambiguous body was surgically "cured" to save the adult from social pathology.
As the first two parts of this book establish beyond doubt, the underlying assumption, that anatomy determines sexual identity and therefore practice, is not borne out in the life experiences of intersexual persons. Although we do not yet understand exactly how a person acquires a sexual identity or comes to desire specific types of sexual contact, it is clear that behavior cannot be predicted on the basis of an infant's gonadal, genital, or genetic makeup. As a result, surgical treatment of intersexual infants does not facilitate the unproblematic acquisition of a stable sexual identity, even though it is undertaken almost solely for this purpose. On the contrary, early surgery sometimes creates new problems: loss of sexual feeling, loss of fertility, lifelong urinary pain and dysfunction, and the social difficulties that follow from these conditions. The authors point out that being intersexual is a lifelong experience, irrespective of whether a person undergoes "corrective" surgery. Medical interventions, whether surgical or hormonal, do not "cure" a person of an intersexual condition. Rather, such interventions create further uncertainty with respect to the already ambiguous intersexual body, often compounding rather than reducing distress and confusion.
Although this book is full of diverse voices and styles of writing, it is a tightly focused collection with a consistent point of view. Each of the 21 chapters contributes to the development of the overall argument, and each chapter also has its own story to tell. These stories are variously academic and personal, powerful and unassuming, moving and disturbing, sad and joyful. However, all contributions are informative and compelling. No reader will put down this book unchanged. Yvonne Marshall, Ph.D. Copyright © 2000 Massachusetts Medical Society. Reviewer: David T. Ozar, PhD from Loyola University of Chicago "The range of ethical issues that arise in regard to the treatment of intersex infants, children, and adults is richly representative of clinical healthcare ethics generally. By incorporating the perspective of patients and their stories into its account, however, INTERSEX IN THE AGE OF ETHICS does more than introduce the questions of healthcare ethics in microcosm. It also leads the readers to examine the effect of ethical reflection on the lives of patients. INTERSEX IN THE AGE OF ETHICS is a model, in both senses of this word, of what thoughtful healthcare ethics reflection can accomplish. Reviewer: Ms. Caron Rachelle Burke from Hartford County, Connecticut Alice Domurat Dreger has written what may well come to be regarded as the definitive work on intersexuality. By employing a collective and inclusive approach, Ms. Dreger is able to provide both personal and medical perspectives on intersexuality provided by individuals, their families and compassionate medical providers. personal odyssies, why only those people affected should be the decision makers in their care. I hope that every intersexed person, every family member or parent of an intersexed individual reads this book. And I pray that every medical professional who treats intersexed individuals, beginning with obstetricians, pediatricians and pediatric urologists, takes to heart the suggestions for adapting care to a patient-directed philosophy of medical care.
* Invisible Lives
by Viviane K Namaste, The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. A scholarly study of transsexuals and cross-dressers.
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Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people-cross-dressers, drag queens, and transsexuals-and their everyday lives. Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings.
Namaste begins her work by analyzing two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people-queer theory and the social sciences-displaying how neither of these has adequately addressed the issues most relevant to sex change: everything from employment to health care to identity papers. Namaste then examines some of the rhetorical and semiotic inscriptions of transgendered figures in culture, including studies of early punk and glam rock subcultures, to illustrate how the effacement of transgendered people is organized in different cultural sites. Invisible Lives concludes with new research on some of the day-to-day concerns of transgendered people, offering case studies in violence, health care, gender identity clinics, and the law.
Just Add Hormones
by Matt Kailey, An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Kailey describes the complex physical, emotional, and practical issues involved in transitioning from female to male.
* Katherine’s diary
* Kim: A True Story
by Kim Harlow & Bettina Rheims ISBN: 1898787603
Language of the Sexes
by Francine Frank and Frank Anshen State University of New York Press, Albany. ISBN:0-87395-882-9 (PBK).
* Last time I wore a dress
by Daphne Scholinski At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of "Gender Identity Disorder." She spent three years--and over a million dollars of insurance--"treating" the problem...with makeup lessons and instructions in how to walk like a girl. Daphne's story--which is, sadly, not that unusual--has already received attention from such shows as "20/20," "Dateline," "Today," and "Leeza." But her memoir, bound to become a classic, tells the story in a funny, ironic, unforgettable voice that "isn't all grim; Scholinski tells her story in beautifully evocative prose and mines her experiences for every last drop of ironic humor, determined to have the last laugh." (Time Out New York)
* Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
by Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, The first of a set of a dozen followed by: Tribulation Force, Nicolae, Soul Harvest, Assassins, The Indwelling, The Mark, Desecration, The Remnant. Two more to go LEFT BEHIND: the beginning of a novel series that has literally changed the world. Full of action and emotion, LEFT BEHIND takes you into the middle of the time which is to come. Read and learn. Your entire life will be changed! I guarantee it! Grade: A+
P.S. See the hit film adaptation with Kirk Cameron and Brad Johnson after you read the book!
Legal Aspects of Transsexualism
Sr. Mary Elizabeth, SSE ISBN: 0962597600 1990
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging: Research and Clinical Perspectives
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues
by Anthony J. Silvestre, Selections from the American Journal of Public Health. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2001.
* Lesson from the Intersex
by Suzanne J. Kessler ISBN: 0813525306 This an excellent book on the "gender theory". It is also a starting point for new gender activism. Kessler tells us the intersexed "real lives stories" of pain and suffering. She deconstructs the medical retoric as to how doctors "enforce gender" while inflicting both physical and psychic harm on their intersexed patiennts. She compares the gential reconstruction imposed on the intersexed with that begrundingly provided to (m-to-f) transsexual women and suggested to women with genital cancer. Kessler shows a how we might change gender for the benifit of all. She says: "Institutionalized mutilations occur because the gentials too are taken too seriously...If we want people to respect particular bodies, they need to be taught to lose respect for ideal ones." She suggest that genital piercing, people creating "custom" gentials or men growing breast for their own self pleasure are initial steps to breaking down the connetion between body and gender. From that the two gender system will break down.
Her book has a large number of foot notes and cross references to other works. She is well read and very current. The text is some 131 pages. The footnotes are another 30 pages. The glossary is 4 pages. The bibliography is 10 page. And the index is another 12. This a very well researched book with innovative ideas.
Her closing words are: "We must use what ever means to we have to give up on gender. The problems of intersexuality [and gayness, transsexuals, transvities, ect] will vanish and we will, compensate intersexuals for all the lessons they have provided."
Life and Deaths of Carter Falls
by Gypsey Teague ISBN: 159286435X After a brutal murder at the Taiwanese Embassy Danny St. Claire, National Security Agency Bureau Chief must assume the identity and physical form of his dead cousin Special Agent Claire Daniels in order to stop the murderer from killing again. Teamed with Dr. Rachel Jackson, a brilliant psychiatrist, the two delve into the mysteries of a town so evil and ancient that the impossible is commonplace. With a backdrop of myth and legends the two, with help from four male agents, discover that some secrets are best left hidden at all costs.
* Looking for normal, play & movie
by Jane Anderson ISBN: 0822218577 Dramatist's Play Service (May 1, 2002)
Looking Queer:
Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities. Dawn Atkins, editor. New York: Harrington Park Press, c1998. While focusing largely on eating disorders and body image obsession as it relates to the queer community, this book addresses concerns of intersexed and transgendered individuals.
Love Makes a Family
by Gigi Kaesar, Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Perhaps the first book to feature a trangender parent.
Luna
by Julie Ann Peters 2004 ISBN: 0316733695 a novel geared to young adults. A 2004 National Book Award Finalist, Luna, which will come out in paperback in December, tells Liam's story, which is a familiar one: a teenager's quest to find his own, authentic identity. Except in Julie Ann Peters' novel, Liam's true self is female. He is Luna.
* Made in God's Image
by Ann Thompson Cook Get your copy from http://www.madeinimage.org/ A Resource for Dialogue about the Church and Gender Differences, Ann Thompson Cook communicates a gently assertive expectation that we as Christians need to get up to speed on something too rarely discussed but very important for the life of the church and its ministries. Combining valuable information, personal sharing, and resources, this booklet is a perfect starting place for any congregation, family, or individual seeking to better understand transgender issues and to provide a supportive environment for all of God’s children.
Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing
by Richard Ekins American Journal of Sociology "...vivid cases of gender arrangements and encourages readers to think about them in the broadest possible way."
Making Gender: The Politics of Erotics and Culture
by Sherry B. Ortner, Spanning approximately 25 years, Ortner draws on her work in feminist anthropology to present a significant reconsideration of culture and gender. This collection of essays theorize the way people act within a cultural context in order to alter those very contexts. They include: "Is Female-to-Male As Nature Is to Culture?," "Rank and Gender," and "Borderland Politics and Erotics: Gender and Sexuality in Himalayan Mountaineering." 1996; $25.00; 262 pp; ISBN: 0-807-04632-9; Beacon Press, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-2892; 617/742-2110; FAX: 617/723-3097.
* Man and woman boy and girl: Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity
by John Money How do men become men and women become women? How does a child establish gender identity? By what processes is the human being directed toward reproductive maturity as either male or female? In Man and Woman, Boy and Girl, John Money and Anke Ehrhardt offer a comprehensive account of sexual differentiation using genetics, embryology, endocrinology and neuro-endocrinology, psychology, and anthropology. Their multidisciplinary approach to gender identity avoids the old arguments over nature versus nurture. Money and Ehrhardt focus instead on the interaction of hereditary endowment and environmental influence. Money and Ehrhardt's work will lead many readers to the conclusion that the differences between man and man, or woman and woman, can be as great as between man and woman. A new model of sexual differentiation emerges from this conclusion. It indicates that the social roles of men and women, rather than being fixed by membership in a sexual caste, should be related to individual biography, achievement, and incentives. Still the most thorough treatment of the subject, this latest printing contains a new preface by John Money.
* Mark 947
by Calpernia Addams .A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will, New York: Writers Club Press, 2003. Addams explores her life from the hills of Tennessee, to the first Gulf War, to the fulfillment of her dream of becoming a woman. An especially poignant story given the bias- based killing of Addams’ soldier boyfriend.
* Masculinizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered
by Sheila Kirk, M.D. This companion to Feminizing Hormonal Therapy for the Transgendered is written for the female-to-male transgendered person. The same topics are covered in both books from different perspectives. 1996; $14.95 + $2.00 shipping and handling; 57 pp; ISBN 1-887796-02-9; Together Lifeworks, P.O. Box 38114, Blawnox, PA 15238-9998; 412/781-1092; FAX: 415/781-1096; E-mail: sheilakirk@aol.com .
* Medical, Legal & Workplace Issues for the Transsexual
by Sheila Kirk, M.D. & Martine Rothblatt, J.D. This book provides comprehensive and accurate information encountered by transsexuals or those going through this transition. Focusing on medical, legal, and workplace issues for the transsexual, it addresses three distinct periods for each topic: the transition, the surgical experience, and convalescence. 1995; $18.95 + $2.00 shipping and handling; 148 pp; ISBN 1-887796-00-2; Together Lifeworks, P.O. Box 38114, Blawnox, PA 15238-9998; 412/781-1092; FAX: 415/781-1096; E-mail: sheilakirk@aol.com .
Men as Women, Women as Men
by Sabine Lang, Changing Gender in Native American Cultures. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Provides a historical and cultural overview of the role of the berdache.
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN 0786257008 I have not seen much about this book in TS-related sites, but it does involve gender identity--"Middlesex" is indeed about being intersexed.
The novel, by Pulitzer Prize winning Jeffrey Eugenides, is about a Greek family as told by Calliope/Cal Stephanides, an intersexed person with 5-alpha-reductace deficiency.
