Author: Gordene MacKenzie
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Pre
Keywords: nation, transgender
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0879725966
ISBN-13: 9780879725969

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 and sociopolitical perspective and maintains that it is not the individual transgenderist who is

Author: Andrew Sharpe
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Keywords: jurisprudence, transgender
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $132.00
ISBN-10: 1859416667
ISBN-13: 9781859416662

This book moves beyond liberal law reform and is the first to interrogate the transgender/law relation in a sustained and critical manner. Its concern is to map contemporary legal regulation of transgender bodies within a common law tradition. The specific focus is upon ideas of transgender that define the terms of this regime. The book deals with the structure, history and institutions of production of this lexicon. In doing so the book makes the reader more aware of the legal enterprise and its relationship with medical science. This book, through an analysis and critique of the transgender/

Author: Joanne Herman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: explained, transgender
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1449029574
ISBN-13: 9781449029579

Joanne Herman, a transgender woman who read everything in sight to understand her own gender incongruity, has been helping others with her non-complicated explanations of transgender for almost a decade. Now she has written down her explanations for all to read in Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not. Organized by topic into short, easy-to-read chapters, Transgender Explained is perfect for parents, relatives, colleagues, friends, allies and even journalists who want to quickly get up to speed on what it means to be transgender.

Author: Stephen Whittle
Publisher: Ithaca Press (GB)
Keywords: debate, transgender
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1902932161
ISBN-13: 9781902932163

Transgender has become a cultural obsession. From the high camp of Rue Paul to the working class transsexual icon, Hayley of Coronation Street, it pervades our lives. Yet for many it remains a freakish interest on the sidelines. For transsexual and transgender people, though, it is a reality bound up in complexities, legal contradictions, family discord, and a desperate need to explain what it means to be a man or a woman, or neither, or both. Addressing the historical, social, legal and medical issues surrounding this new community, this book throws a light onto the complex issues, clar

Author: Susan Stryker
Publisher: Seal Pre
Keywords: studies, seal, history, transgender
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 158005224X
ISBN-13: 9781580052245

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; an

Authors:Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reader, studies, transgender
Number of Pages: 758
Published: 2006-05-26
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 041594709X
ISBN-13: 9780415947091

Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history stretching back at least to the early 20th century. Before the First World War, European sexologists began to devise new terminology to describe gender-atypical individuals. By mid-century, feminist scholars had appropriated scientific paradigms that posited a distinction between bodily sex and psychosocial gender, and dep

Author: Helen Boyd
Publisher: Seal Press
Keywords: husband, transgender, life, married, man
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-02-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1580051936
ISBN-13: 9781580051934

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 partner the same way?Boyd’s first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of cross-dressing men and their partners. Now, She’s Not the Man I Married is both a sequel and a more expansive examination of gender in relationships. It’s for couples who are homosexua