Book Description The Phallus Palace is a bold approach to the subject of female to male transexuals (FTMs). Personal testaments from FTMs and contributions from a host of others place the subject of transsexualism into a historical, medical,psychological and cultural context. Captivating photographs guide the reader from the FTMs female personae, through surgical operations, to portraits of the men whose self and public identities are finally revealed as one.

About the Author Dean Kotula has worked as a documentary photographer for twenty years. Dean changed his sex from female to male under the scrutinizing eyes of 2,000 predominantly male shipyard workers while working as a machinist. The ensuing ordeal prompted him to create this book with the hope that educating the public about transsexualism would reduce the animosity and fear surrounding the issue. A native Minnesotan, Dean now resides in Massachusetts where he co-owns an antique business.

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Editorial Reviews President, Tri-Ess International "The best book I have ever read on crossdressing... written by a crossdresser." Jane Ellen Fairfax

Book Description “Out & About” is an intelligent, fresh, and light-hearted look at crossdressing. Ms. Leigh writes, with no psychological mumbo-jumbo, to enlighten and encourage crossdressers ultimately to dump their guilt, shame, and denial so they may finally and fully express their feminine attributes in taste and style.

"Out & About" was recently selected for inclusion in the assortment of books distributed to public and scholastic libraries by Tri-Ess, the international sorority for heterosexual...

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This sympathetic novel about the effect of a sex change on a romantic relationship, a family, and a community could almost be sold as a textbook--a kind of transgender Guide to the Perplexed. With its calming tone and scrupulous sensitivity to the feelings of all involved, it sometimes reads like a textbook, too. But while nobody is likely to launch a protest campaign over the cautious revelations of Trans-sister Radio, that's precisely the subject of Chris Bohjalian's seventh novel, in which a male college professor in a small Vermont town transforms himself into a woman. Even Dana Stevens's initial step in this direction--donning women's clothing--elicits a powerful reaction from the community.

And what about Dana's new girlfriend Allie Banks, a beloved local schoolteacher who fell in love with him before learning of his plan? Her initial instinct is to end the relationship. Then she decides to stand by Dana, inspired rather than daunted by her stuffy ex-husband Will's opposition to the "effeminate" guy she's dating, and by the horrified reactions of the parents at her school. She does, it's true, continue to love Dana after the sex reassignment surgery. And she stoically endures the threatening notes in her school mailbox and the crude graffiti on her front door, as well as the minor vindication of a local public radio story on their battle. Yet Allie never makes the emotional shift from heterosexual woman to lesbian. Breaking off the affair, she spends months mourning the man she had fallen in love with. Order/Review

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Known in and out of the transvestite world as the Tranny Bible, The Tranny Guide is the world's most detailed, comprehensive guide to the transgender and cross-dressing scene. This ninth edition brings together:

* more than 1,000 new photos * 30+ international personal reports, including photos * 1,500 listings of helpful organizations, shops, services and places to meet * new and exclusive articles about the tranny scene * reviews of other books and magazines about "the scene"

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Alfred "Buddy" Crenshaw hailed from rural Tennessee and eventually worked in San Francisco's famous nightclub Finocchio's as drag diva Lee Shaw. As a boy, he knew he was somehow different, and he reveled in fantasy and daydreams. As a young man, he fled his repressed life in the South and started working as a female impersonator in San Francisco more than a decade before the birth of gay liberation in the 1969 Stonewall incident. He was a smash but found life schizoid because the "real" world demanded that he dress and act as a man. Wanting to be accepted as a woman at all times, he resorted to self-castration in the early days of transgender surgery. Finally, after hormone therapy, he underwent the surgical sexual reassignment that allowed him to become Aleshia Brevard, the buxom B-movie actress he had presumably always felt he was.

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Disobedience takes forms great and small in Hamilton's new family drama. The Shaws have just left Vermont for Chicago. Kevin is an affable and optimistic high-school teacher. Beth is an accomplished pianist. Henry, Hamilton's complicated narrator, is a mild-mannered and lonely high school senior. And Elvira, his tomboy little sister (and the novel's most charismatic character), is a hard-core Civil War reenactor who disguises herself as a boy while on the field and wishes she was one. Henry has inadvertently opened his mother's e-mail and discovered that she's having an affair with a violin player who lives in a log cabin just over the Wisconsin border. This knowledge frightens, angers, and intrigues him since he is in the throes of his first passionate relationship. As Henry ponders the mysteries of love, sex, marriage, and duty, Hamilton subtly questions the very notion of disobedience. Should one disobey the heart's desires to protect others? Is any one person in the wrong when relationships run aground? Hamilton's characters are magnetic, their predicaments are unexpected and wholly absorbing, and her finely crafted prose is vivid and suspenseful, yet this novel runs like a car with a shimmy, and the problem is Henry. He narrates with just the sort of sarcasm a bright and sensitive teenager would employ, yet he's writing from an unspecified future date and, therefore, interjects his older self's more knowledgeable perspective in such a way as to blur rather than sharpen his persona. But perhaps this glitch only serves to highlight the truth implicit in this wise and funny tale: we must "come of age" many times over the course of a life, and it never gets any easier. Donna Seaman Order/Review Hardback------Order/Review Audio Cassette

Reviewer: Dennis Lee Cleven from Madison, WI
I had read Jorgensen's book and this is a great reissue of her very polite autobiography originally published in 1967. Susan Stryker's introduction adds a great deal of insight into Christine as she truly was: ambitious,tough,witty, and truly talented. Jorgensen was not a successful nightclub performer because of her sex change, she had taste and talent. She strived for more such as films and theatre. She was successful in the latter a few times. This new edition has great photographs never seen before. Jorgensen had written, at least in part, a new auto-biography that did not hold back intimate information which she felt the audience of the 1960s were not ready for. Why Christine Jorgensen has been largely forgotten (she made TV appearances into the 1980s and died far too young in 1989)is something that I don't understand. She was constantly in the newspapers throughout the 1950s and when this book was originally released, she was on several talk shows. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand transsexualism. Christine was not the first, but she was the first major celebrity sex change. The lady had class, dignity, intelligence, and a great wit. It is an intriguing read of a shy lad who was troubled and catapulted into a celebrity status and become very comfortable with herself. One cannot help but to admire her courage. If the reader wants to find out about her love life,back issues of such periodicals as The Advocate will have to be perused.Details of her three surgeries are not described indepth. Nevertheless,she was a phenomenon who is often left out of books on the 1950s. The re-issue of her book will enlighten many, bring back memories to others. It will also cause several to wish someone would do a biography on Christine Jorgensen.Susan Stryker's introduction evokes great intrigue and I wish it had been much longer and filled in the many gaps which Jorgensen's publishers persuaded her to leave out. A very worthy read of an all but forgotten lady of history! I highly recommend it. Christine Jorgensen unintentionally moved the sexual revolution along. She caused society to re-evaluate what gender is during a politically conservative climate. If you have never heard of her, it is a must. If you heard of her but forgot her, revisit her. It is worth the time to get to know Ms.Jorgensen. Order/Review Paperback

The only quibble to make about this outstanding collection concerns the word essays in the subtitle. None of these 20 lively and moving memoirs is as formal as essays suggests. Each of the young authors was raised by a homosexual or gender-altering parent. If not every one of them is heterosexual, all are "normal," even 19-year-old Jeffrey Wright (a pseudonym), who at 16 became legally independent of his abusive mother and found a gay adoptive father. Their normality despite plenty of tribulations--mostly inflicted by social uptightness, both external (harassment) and internal (shame over a deviant parent, or that parent's own shame)--is the collective point of their testimonies. A parent may have been a male transsexual taking hormones to increase breast size, a transexual who at some point became a male mother or female father, a gay activist who took his child leafletting and demonstrating, a lesbian with a career who donned a "beard" (ostensible boyfriend) for professional functions expecting spouses, a woman who persisted in a loveless marriage while taking the nun for whom she worked as her lover (and later taking a second husband after divorce from the first)--whatever, the child has become a responsible adult with a coherent life. Parental love--family values, if you will--counts more than sociosexual conformity. And so do the intelligence and the character of the child who radiates from each of these pieces. Ray Olson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Order/Review Now

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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 him 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 Order/Review Hardback (1st Edition) Now -----Order/Review Audio Cassette Now

A collection of writings by Trans-Academics: theory and activism at the end of the century

Contributers include: Stephen Whittle, Jason Cromwell, Susan Stryker, Jay Prosser, James Green, Kate Morew, Roz Kaveney, Markisha Greaney, Henry Rubin, Gordene McKenzie, Diane Morgan --Order/Review Now

Anyone who has been following the new brain science in the popular press--and even those whose casual reading includes journals along the lines of Psychoneuroendocrinology--will be fascinated by the puckish observations of Brown University biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, whose provocative and erudite essays easily establish the cultural biases underlying current scientific thought on gender. She goes on to critique the science itself, exposing inconsistencies in the literature and weaknesses in the rhetorical and theoretical structures that support new research. "One of the major claims I make in this book," she explains, "is that labeling someone a man or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledge to help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender--not science--can define our sex. Furthermore, our beliefs about gender affect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about sex in the first place." Whether discussing genital surgery on intersex infants or the amorous lives of lab rats, the author is unfailingly clear and convincing, and manages to impart humor to subjects as seemingly unpromising as neuroanatomy and the structure of proteins. Order/Review Now

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A guide to the natural and effective supplements on the market that boost testosterone levels, complete with detailed information for both men and women and how and when to use them responsibly. Charts & graphs. --Order/Review Now

Kay tells her story from many different perspectives--the doctor who signs the death certificate, the mortician who prepares the body, the opportunistic biographer looking to make a buck and a name for herself, the musicians who knew Joss--but it is Millicent and Colman who bear the brunt of both the pain and the responsibility for telling the tale. Millie Moody is a tremendously sympathetic character; her love for Joss is so powerful, so right that the reader never questions the decisions this odd couple made in life. "I didn't feel like I was living a lie," Millie tells us. "I felt like I was living a life." Colman, on the other hand, is more difficult to like. Though it's easy to understand his anger and confusion upon suddenly learning that the man he regarded as his father for 30 years was actually a woman, one also has the sneaking suspicion that he wasn't a particularly lovable guy before the revelation, either. Still, by the end of Trumpet, there's hope for Colman, peace of mind for Millie, and a satisfying rendering of love in all its permutations for the reader. --Alix Wilber Order/Review Now

Waun's knockout punch is the individual stories she presents, and this section was definitely the most painful for me. In six chapters, Waun recounts the stories of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people relating to pastors, churches, fellow parishioners, and their relatives and friends. It was in this section that I realized my "understanding" of these people's situation had been shallow at best, and actively hurtfull at worst. Over and over, the author lets the stories speak more forcefully than she could, identifying institutional and personal prejudice, bigotry, indifference, and apathy. It was difficult to read of these people of faith, trying to live out a call to follow Jesus as best they could, being repeatedly hurt and shunned by those who profess to love *all* their neighbors as Christ commanded.

Fortunately, Waun does not leave us with that alone. She goes on, in the third section, to identify specific problems the church [speaking as the universal Body of Christ] must address, and specific things individuals should consider when contemplating the Gospel call to "love your neighbor."
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Arlene Istar Lev and Sundance Lev have an article entitled "Sexual Assault in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities"

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Did you know that in medieval folklore a person might change sex by passing under a rainbow? Or that same-sex unions have been celebrated by many of the world's peoples? Or that Sappho, Mishima, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Boy George number among those who have explored the spiritual dimension of gender and sexuality in their works? The Encyclopedia contains over 1500 entries, with a comprehensive index and bibliography, and a foreword by Gloria E. Anzaldua (editor of This Bridge Called My Back). Randy P. Conner is the author of Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections Between Homoeroticism and the Sacred (1993). David H. Sparks is a writer and ethnomusicologist whose work has been published in the Afro-Hispanic Review and elsewhere. Mariya Sparks, their daughter, is an actor and writer, whose play Primas premiered as a film in the 1995 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Order/Review Paperback Also Published in 1997Order/Review Hardcover

From The Publisher The phrase "glad day", often associated with the gay liberation movement, comes from a watercolor painting by William Blake. It offers an image of morning, new freedom, beginnings, and joy. The meditations in Glad Day likewise offer a reminder, each day, to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people "of the wholeness and beauty of our nature, of the glad spirit that dances in each one of us", writes author Joan Larkin. Interwoven throughout Glad Day are references to the transforming experiences of coming out and of recovery. While Larkin presents the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as one way to foster a "daily conversation with Spirit", her reach is far broader. Glad Day speaks to issues that touch everyone, regardless of their sexual preference: change, fear, self-disclosure, faith in a power greater than ourselves, success and failure, and receptiveness to oneself and others. Clear and direct, these meditations speak to the mutual trust and compassion that not only keep people committed to recovery but that are also important in creating a rich, fulfilling life. At once practical and spiritual, Larkin''s meditations acknowledge the intrinsic worth of every individual, celebrate individual uniqueness, nurture self-respect, build self-esteem, and support the continuing process of personal growth and transformation. "Whatever our momentary conflicts, whatever the circumstances of our worlds, nothing need stand between us and the gladness at the source of our lives", writes Larkin. "Nothing need keep us from the joy that is our essence. We can greet and celebrate it each day" Order/Review Now

Each chapter in this book is written by a homosexual or transgendered person trying to reconcile their orientation with their religious faith, Chapters in the second part are written by family. Most are signed. In some cases a story in the first part is followed by a parent's story in the "Those Who Love Them" second part; or in one case by a daughter's story in the second part. I found a deeper understanding in reading it, the book was hard to put down. I started to skim it choosing from chapter titles such as "Coloring Outside the Lines", "At Least I'm Not Dying" and "Born Again--Again!" In the end I read it all, and some stories more than once, particularly the one by a transgendered woman who wrote of trying to date girls knowing it was expected, but "It's hard to be a really good date when you are more interested in where the woman got her dress than what is under it."People of all beliefs and orientations will find it moving. Order/Review Paperback

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A landmark book on gender theory and activism

Reviewer: richard@capmed.com from Madison, Alabama August 24, 1998

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." Order/Review Paperback -- Order/Review Hardback

Book Description Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites -- people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy -- and the medical and scientific professionals who were confronted by them. Order/Review Paperback (Available 3/2/2000) -Order/Review Hardback

Amazon.com Conservatives complain that the contemporary world is obsessed with sex. It is true that during the past 100 years Western societies have broadened the permissible limits of openness in discussing sexuality. Yet with all of this freedom, the origins of much sexual language, folklore, and rituals are unknown. Not any more. Charles Panati's Sexy Origins and Intimate Things is a grab bag of cultural, sexual trivia that makes for compulsive reading and retelling. What are the origins of the words queer, fairy, faggot, and dyke? Who invented the bra and the corset? How did the common rituals surrounding marriage, sexual activity, circumcision, and birth come about? Which males throughout history had large penises? Well, not all of them, but Panati does manages to come up with a few surprising names. Hardly science and not really sociology, Sexy Origins and Intimate Things will fully equip you to chat your way through your next 50 dinner parties.

Book Description Where did the word "love" come from? Has there ever been a gay pope? Who invented the condom? How did Valentine's Day originate? From the lascivious to the romantic, from the hard-core to the scientific and the scholarly, this engaging and eye-opening compendium of little known facts about sex is both informative and endlessly entertaining. Employing the same careful research and driven by the unadulterated obsession with roots that made his Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things a bestseller-- Order/Review Now

From The Publisher: This special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies presents an interactive collection of texts, each of which undertakes a methodologically distinctive analysis of a particular concern in transgender studies. When taken together, these pieces give voice to the sometimes antagonistic viewpoints of scholars and activists pursuing different political and intellectual goals.
Essays include a documentation of how readers of mass-circulation print media became aware of new medical possibilities for the surgical and hormonal alteration of sex characteristics and began agitating for them; a challenge from feminist theorists to transgender movement activists to avoid repeating the mistakes of previous feminist, gay, and lesbian political mobilizations; a critique of the overreliance on discursive analysis in much current transgender scholarship; and paired essays exploring the so-called Butch/FTM Border Wars from either side of that divide. Also, there are pieces focusing on intersex activism, the bioethics of gender dysphoria management, and the mobilization of transgender advocacy organizations.
The sweeping changes in professional and popular attitudes regarding the transgender community and the issues that affect it are approached in these essays, which consider perceptions of queer embodiment past and present. The timeliness of this issue as well as the diversity of its viewpoints makes it an important contribution to the growing body of transgender literature.--- Order/Review Now

The author, Aphrodite Jones , October 29, 1999 Comparison between the book and the film, Boys Don't Cry Five years ago, when I got to Nebraska and faced throngs of people trying to tell this story, I knew Brandon was a force to be reckoned with. Brandon has become a symbol that allows us to re-think our stereotypical ideas about sexuality. In my book, I try to be faithful to the real-life story, I try to show compassion, and I try to give readers a true sense of this brave young person. In most instances, I feel the film, Boys Don't Cry, does a fabulous job of re-telling Brandon's story -- Review/Order Now

The author of the groundbreaking book Gender Blending here turns her attention to the little-known world of female-to-male transsexuals. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as transsexual? What do they do about it? How do their families cope? Who loves them? What does it mean for the rest of us? --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title

Holly Devor spent many years compiling indepth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgendered people, many of whom became her friends. She traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce in transsexual identity, culminating in gender and sex transformation. After an introduction which grounds the discussion in historical and theoretical contexts, the author takes a life course approach to understanding female-to-male transsexualism. Using her subjects' own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescent, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify female-to-male transsexuals' images of themselves as people who should be men. Order/Review Paperback -Order/Review Hardback

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We live in a complicated world, and according to PoMoSexuals, it is a lot more complicated than we thought. Now that society has become accustomed to the idea that gay men and lesbians exist, Lawrence Schimel and Carol Queen have brought together 15 essays dedicated to demolishing those categories. They are not, of course, arguing that homosexuals don't exist, but simply that these categories and words cannot do justice to the wondrous complexity of human sexuality. In PoMoSexuals you can read about heterosexual women who identify as gay men, the politics of placing a transgendered personal ad, and how trendy gay male ghetto culture is less about sexual liberation than brand-name accumulation. No matter what your sexual identity is, PoMoSexuals will startle and enlighten, provoke and entertain.
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PoMo (short for postmodern) in the arts--a movement following and in direct reaction to Modernism--is a worldview that acknowledges diverse, complex points of view. PoMoSexual is the queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation. This collection dishes up an all-star cast of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered authors--all of whom want to explore assumptions about gender and sexuality. Order/Review Now

Forget the picture of overpainted, bejeweled, flaunting and mincing creatures. They belong to another world. Transsexuals are not like that. They want the same thing as other people - the ability to get on with their lives in reasonable security, free of harassment, going about their daily business and doing things which most people take for granted and regard as normal.-- Order/Review Now

From The Publisher An inspiring story of courage and perseverance toward the hardest goal of all - self-acceptance. As a child Spry cherished the moments when he was left alone at home so he could dress up in his mother's clothes. In adolescence he tried to prove his manhood by competitive sailing and heavy drinking. When even marriage and fatherhood failed to make a man of him, John began the long journey towards recognition of herself as Jennifer, a woman and a lesbian.

Reviews From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly Although Spry, a transsexual lesbian, has an unusual story to tell, the uneven and occasionally self-indulgent writing detracts from this otherwise engaging memoir. From the time of his boyhood in Australia, Jennifer (ne John) had a strong compulsion to dress in his mother's and sister's clothing. Spry spent years suppressing this desire and attempted to live as a normal male by marrying Laurie, an American woman, in 1974. The couple moved to the U.S. and adopted a baby boy. Despite their close friendship, Spry was unable to sustain a sex life with Laurie, who became aware of and upset by her husband's renewed desire to cross-dress, which he indulged whenever possible. Spry began treatment in preparation for a sex change, and the couple divorced in 1992, just a month before the surgery. The author now lives as a lesbian in Australia and is content with her identity. Spry describes the years of discriminatory treatment from some family members and credits those (including her ex-wife) who supported her struggle. (May)-- Order/Review Now

A very detailed and well researched book" - The Tranny Guide 1997; "The most thorough and practical guide to gender dysphoria" - Gems News; "The most important book on earth" - TV/TS London News; "Fascinating and eminently readable" - TransEssex International; "An excellent book" - Press for Change; "An enlightening layperson's guide to the transsexual experience" - Gay Times; Essential reading for all trans-people, and health professionals. Includes sociology, psychology, politics, law, diagnosis, treatment, sex/gender reassignment. Also personal stories from transsexuals and their families and 16 pages of colour photographs.

Young isolated FTM guys... BUY THIS BOOK. The before and after portraits of the guys will comfort and inspire you like nothing else will. Transitioning can be done... There are others like you... and they look great! Order/Review Now

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In the 1990s, questions of sex roles and individual identity have taken a central position in intellectual debates. These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on these debates by questioning the place of sexual dimorphism in culture and history. They propose a new role for the study of alternative sex and gender systems in cultural science, as a means of critiquing thinking that privileges standard male/female gender distinctions and rejects the natural basis of other forms of sexuality. The essays: Introduction Gilbert Herdt. Living in the Shadows: Eunuchs and Gender in Byzantium Kathryn Ringrose. London's Sapphists: From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture Randolph Trumbach. Sodomy and the Pursuit of a Third Sex in the Early Modern Period Theo van der Meer. A Female Soul in a Male Body Gert Hekma. Woman Becomes Man in the Balkans Rene Gremaux. Polynesian Gender Liminality Through Time and Space Niko Besnier. How to Become a Berdache: Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender Diversity Will Roscoe. Hijras: An Alternative Sex and Gender Role in India Serena Nanda. Mistaken Sex: Culture, Biology and the Third Sex in New Guinea Gilbert Herdt. Transcending and Transgendering: Male-to-Female Transsexuals, Dichotomy and Diversity Anne Bolin. Order/Review Paperback---Order/Review Hardback (April 1994)

From Book News, Inc. , September 1, 1994 Looks at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociological and sociopolitical perspective, arguing that it is not the individual transgenderists who are sick and need treatment, but the society that condemns them. Considers the history of the transgender movement, categories of sex, and contemporary medical and popular ideology. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description Gender is the mine field we pass through every day. In the United States, gender is all too often determined by one's anatomical sex. From birth we are bombarded with gender propaganda that supports a repressive dual gender system pitting the sexes and the genders against each other. Transgenderists as gender nonconformists challenge us to rethink traditional discourses on sex and gender. Transgender Nation dares to look at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociocultural... read more

About the Author This book was 12 years in the making as author Gordene Olga MacKenzie became involved with the transgender community and the Gender Movement in the U.S.A., which she calls the civil rights movement of the 1990s. MacKenzie teaches courses on sex and gender, popular culture, and media politics, in the American Studies Department and the Women Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She is an advocate and activist for transgender equal rights, which she believes is the key to a much needed... read more

Excerpted from Transgender Nation by Gordene Olga MacKenzie. Copyright © 1994. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved From dust jacket: Transgenderists as gender nonconformists challenge us to rethink traditional discourses on sex and gender. Transgender Nation dares to look at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociocultural and socio-political perspective and maintains that it is not the individual transgenderist that is sick and in need of treatment but rather the culture that must be treated. Order/Review Hardback ---Order/Review Paperback

An absolutely fascinating book about how the scientific study of gender difference is replete with bad science. Anne Fausto-Sterling demonstrates time and again how the scientists who design these experiments are unable to see their own bias. Dr. Fausto-Sterling writes from a decidedly feminist position, and the tools she uses to deconstruct these biological theories are scientific, but with an awakened feminist conscience Order/Review Now

"We recommend your book to everyone who contacts us. You present one of the best overviews of the issues I have seen without becoming so clinical that a layperson cannot understand the material . . . We feel very fortunate that "The Uninvited Dilemma" is available as a resource. Thank you for writing it." - Jennifer York, Ph.D., Ingersoll Gender Center, Seattle, WA

"This is an excellent survey of the transsexual population and should be required reading for helping professionals . . . For the transsexual, the book contains a good deal of 'how to' information and provides a community of experiences to which one can relate in a positive fashion." - B.A. Lind, Outreach Newsletter END

Book Description "The Uninvited Dilemma" is different from the autobiographies and clinical studies on transsexuality. It represents two years of research involving carefully structured, in-depth personal interviews with seventy-five transsexuals, consultations with members of the medical and mental health communities, and conversations with loved ones of transsexuals. This book will give you an understanding of the true nature of transsexuality. It is a remarkable reading experience for all who are interested.

About the Author Ms. Stuart was born and raised in Oakland CA and attended local schools and a nearby university. She has four children, all of whom are now adults. ---Order/Review Now

Synopsis This is a study of fifteen women "who know they are females yet who exhibit a complex mixture of characteristics from both the standard masculine and feminine gender roles. They do not consciously attempt to project misleading gender impressions, although these women are often mistaken for men and sometimes they allow the mistakes to stand uncorrected." (Choice) Bibliography.Index.

From The Publisher Gender Blending offers a deeper appreciation of the social construction of gender. Any woman who has questioned the value of the concept of femininity will find the experiences of these gender blending females revealing and important to view of woman's place in patriarchy.

Reviews From B. Miller - Choice Devor's fascinating study extends the work of Erving Goffman and John Money. . . . Devor reviews the literature on both the biological and psychological bases of gender and compares this data to her respondents' reports on growing up to be gender blenders. There are chapters on how these women express themselves erotically and how they cope in everyday life with their highly visible stigmas. Photos and direct quotations from respondents enliven the text. The concluding chapter presents a feminist analysis of the theoretical implications of respondents' reports, describes how gender identity and attribution are experienced at the personal level, and indicates the role gender blenders play in affecting social change about gender.-- Order/Review Paperback -Order/Review Hardback