My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
10 best books like My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (Kate Bornstein): Butch Is a Noun, GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, The Transgender Studies Reader, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, Female Masculinity, PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Take Me There, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, Boys Like Her: Transfictions
Written by award-winning playwright and inveterate storyteller S. Bear Bergman, Butch Is a Noun picks up where gender theory leaves off. It makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home--if home is a place where...
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
| Author | Joan Nestle |
| ISBN | 1555837301 |
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...
The Transgender Studies Reader
| Author | Susan Stryker |
| ISBN | 0415947081 |
Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is...
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
| Author | Loren Cameron |
| ISBN | 1573440620 |
The idea of gender is no long as fixed as it once was: Tootsie, La Cage aux Folles, and Milton Berle saw to that. But none of this has prepared us for Loren Cameron's amazing portraits of transsexuals. Beautifully reproduced and complemented with notes and short essays, these portraits of women who are...
| Author | J. Jack Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0822322439 |
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs...
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
| Author | Carol Queen |
| ISBN | 1573440744 |
This is probably the best book about gender and sexuality I've ever read. It discusses the many different facets of human sexuality that aren't necessarily mapped out by what you have between your legs or on your chest. In a world of cookie cutter voidoids who identify themselves purely by their sexuality...
In mainstream media, the erotic identities, sex lives, and fantasies of transgender and genderqueer people are often oversimplified, sensationalized, or invisible. Take Me There is an erotica collection unlike any other that celebrates the pleasure, heat, and diversity of transgender and genderqueer...
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079510 |
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and...
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
| Author | Anne Fausto-Sterling |
| ISBN | 0465077145 |
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by...
| Author | Taste This |
| ISBN | 0889740860 |
Boys Like Her is a provocative collection of fiction and images from Taste This, a queer performance group including Anna Camilleri, Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle and Lyndell Mongomery. Kate Bornstein provides an introduction.
Boys Like Her is a road movie of young queer life. Four distinct voices...
| Author | Colin Kennedy Donovan |
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.
Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1932360565 |
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia,...
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1555835589 |
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
| Author | Chloë Brushwood Rose |
| ISBN | 1551521261 |
Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharp-edged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the un-hyphenated...
She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband
| Author | Helen Boyd |
| ISBN | 1580051936 |
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman — socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire her...
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
| Author | Deborah Rudacille |
| ISBN | 0375421629 |
When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why.
Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psychological, medical–Rudacille discovered...
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
| Author | Morty Diamond |
| ISBN | 0916397963 |
Born female yet little identified with that gender, these transgender, genderqueer, third gender, and gender variant writers offer personal insights into changing gender identity, dating, workplace issues, and more. This book shines light on those who identify as FTM (female to male) and also...
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
| Author | Riki Anne Wilchins |
| ISBN | 1555837980 |
A one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the core of postmodern theory, particularly its impact on queer and gender studies. Nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins combines straightforward prose with concrete examples from LGBT and feminist politics, as well as her own life, to guide the...
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
| Author | Patrick Califia-Rice |
| ISBN | 1573441805 |
Patrick Califia is one of the most outspoken and intelligent commentators on sexual politics writing today. Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, he examines the lives of early transgender pioneers like Christine Jorgensen, Jan Morris, Renee Richards and Mark Rees;...
