Transgender Book Reviews
Scholarly and analytical books
An alphabetical listing of scholarly and analytical transgender books which are not reviewed follows. The format is title, author/s or editor/s, and year published -- when available. Titles beginning with "The" are alphabetized by the second word in the title. Please advise of other similar books. Remember to provide the three attributes listed above. Some of these books are out of print and difficult to obtain.
Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality by Tully, 1992Adolescence: Gateway to Androgyny by Parson
Androgyne: Reconciliation of Male and Female (The) by Zolla
Androgynous Manager (The) by Sargent
Androgyny and the Denial of Difference by Weil
Androgyny: The Opposites Within by Singer, 1989
Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality by Singer
Another Fine Dress: Role-Play in the Films of Laurel and Hardy by Sanders, 1995
Apartheid of Sex (The): A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender by Rothblatt, 1995
Aspects of Gender: A Study of Crossdressing by Gordon, 1997
Beyond Sex Roles by Sargent
Bike Boys, Drag Queens and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema by Suarez, 1996
Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing, edited by Ekins and King, 1996
Bliss of Becoming One (The)! Integrating "Feminine" Feelings into the Male Psyche: Mainstreaming the Gender Community by Miller
Boys Will Be Girls: The Hidden World of the Heterosexual Male Transvestite by Talamini, 1982
Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender by Munt, 1998
Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore by Conner et al, 1998
Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology and the Idea of Gender by Hausman, 1995
Cross-Dressing, Sex and Gender by Bullough and Bullough, 1993
Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-Dressing, edited by Ferris, 1993
Current Concepts in Transgender Identity edited by Denny, 1998
Dagger: On Butch Women by Burana et al, 1994
Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality, edited by Kiddie, 1996
Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts by Baker, 1995
Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Wincklemann to Keller by MacLeod, 1998
Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing After 1885 (Between Men--Between Women) by Bristow
Fantastic Women: Sex, Gender and Transvestism by Woodhouse, 1989
Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Between Men -- Between Women) edited by Blackwood and Wieringa, 1999
Femininity by Brownmiller, 1984
Femininity, Masculinity and Androgyny, edited by Vetterling-Braggin, 1982
From Masculine to Feminine and All Points In Between by Stevens, 1990
Galatians and Gender Trouble: Primal Androgyny and the First Century Origins of a Feminist Dilemma
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Public Policy Issues: A Citizen's and Administrator's Guide to the New Cultural Struggle edited by Swan, 1998
Gay, Straight and In-Between by Money, 1988
Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach, edited by Kessler and McKenna, 1978
Gender Bending: Confronting the Limits of Duality by Devor, 1989
Gender Blending, edited by Bullough, 1997
Gender Dysphoria: A Guide to Research by Denny, 1994
Gender Dysphoria: Development, Research, Management (Perspectives in Sexuality), edited by Steiner, 1984
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Bornstein, 1995
Gender Paradox: What It Means to be a Transvestite (The) by Bland
Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female by Burke, 1996
Hemingway's Quarrel With Androgyny by Spilka
Hollywood Androgyny by Bell-Metereau, 1993
Homosexual Matrix (The) by Tripp, 1987
In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage by Bolin, 1988
Legal Queeries: Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Legal Studies edited by Monk, 1999
Lenses of Gender (The) by Bem, 1993
Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny and Other Rhythms (The) by Loulan et al, 1990
Lesbians Talk Transgender by Nataf, 1996
Lessons From the Intersexed by Kessler
Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Communities, edited by Atkins, 1998
Lovemaps by Money, 1986
Made to Order: Sex/Gender in a Transsexual Perspective by de Castro
Man in the Red Velvet Dress (The) by Allen, 1996
Masculinity and Femininity: A Basic Perspective, edited by Reinisch, Rosenblum and Sanders, 1987
Material Culture of Gender (The); The Gender of Material Culture, edited by Martinez and Ames, 1997
Medical, Legal and Workplace Issues for the Transsexual by Kirk, 1995
Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures by Lang, 1998
Men in Dresses by Coleman, 1996
Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America by Newton, 1979
My Husband Wears My Clothes by Rudd, 1998
Outside of Stage and Screen: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Perspectives by Brown, 1997
Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (The), edited by Nestle, 1992
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, edited by Queen and Schimel, 1997
Psychological Androgyny by Hoeveler, 1990
Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Anthology, edited by Beemyn, 1996
Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin De Siecle, edited by More and Whittle, 1999
Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender and Performance in the Fin de Siecle by Garelick, 1998
Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within by Hoeveler, 1990
Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime by Stevenson, 1996
Sex and Gender: The Transsexual Experiment by Stoller
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Califia, 1997
Sex Roles and Personal Awareness by Kovach, 1990
Sexual Landscapes; Why We Are What We Are, Why We Love Whom We Love by Money and Weinrich, 1987
Sexual Signatures: On Being a Man or a Woman by Money and Tucker, 1975
Shakespeare and the Art of Humankindness: The Essay Toward Androgyny by Kimbrough, 1992
S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes by Griggs, 1998
Sissy Boy Syndrome (The) by Green, 1987
Splitting: A Case of Female Masculinity by Stoller, 1973
Spirit and the Flesh; Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture (The) by Williams, 1986
Struggling Under the Destructive Glance: Androgyny in the Novels of Guy De Maupassant by Hartig, 1991
Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History, edited by Herdt, 1994
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny by Heilbrun
Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Feinberg
Transgender Nation by MacKenzie, 1994
Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (The) by Raymond, 1994
Transsexual Phenomenon (The) by Benjamin, 1966
Transexualism and Sex Reassignment, edited by Walters and Ross, 1986
Trans-x-u-all: The Naked Difference by O'Keefe and Fox, 1996
Transvestite and the Transsexual (The): Public Categories and Private Identities by King, 1993
Transvestites and Transsexuals: Mixed Views by Feinbloom, 1976
Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior by Docter, 1988
Transvestites (The) by Hirschfield, 1991 (first published 1910)
True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism by Brown and Rounsley, 1996
Understand Crossdressing by Prince, 1971
Uninvited Dilemma (The) by Stuart, 1983
Venuses Penuses by Money, 1986
Vested Interests: Crossdressing and Cultural Anxiety by Garber, 1991
Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850 by Degaw, 1989
Who's Really From Venus? by Rudd
Wolves of Heaven; Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies and Prehistoric Origins (The) by Schleiser, 1987
Women Androgynes and other Mythical Beasts by O'Flaherty, 1980
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