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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 28 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781800180567 | ISBN 10: 180018056x
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509511792 | ISBN 10: 1509511792
Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a pre ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787750197 | ISBN 10: 1787750191
In this radical and emotionally raw book, Juno Roche pushes the boundaries of trans representation by redefining 'trans' as an identity with its own power and strength, that goes beyond the gender binary. Through intimate conversations with ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783528448 | ISBN 10: 1783528443
Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a 'trans tipping point', while American Vogue named 2015 'the year of trans visibility'. From our television screens to the ballot box, transgen ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785926471 | ISBN 10: 1785926470
A provocative exploration of issues relating to gender, feminism, philosophy and trans-identities, written from a trans-feminist perspective. It empowers readers, raises awareness and breaks down misconceptions about trans identities, covering issues ... more
View book details£2.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910580318 | ISBN 10: 1910580317
Ten exciting new writers challenging what we think we know. Â TranScripts was an exciting 8-week creative writing course for people in Liverpool who identify as trans* or non-binary gender, delivered in partnership with Writing on the Wall and Liv ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785923159 | ISBN 10: 1785923153
With entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being a trans woman - from bullying and botched coming out attempts to self-acceptance and love - whilst exploring the inaccuracies of trans representation ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571341139 | ISBN 10: 0571341136
As one of Britain's best and most loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations a ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783524716 | ISBN 10: 1783524715
Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a ‘trans tipping point’, while American Vogue named 2015 ‘the year of trans visibility’. From our television screens to the ballot box, ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781580056892 | ISBN 10: 158005689x
A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronologi ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785923432 | ISBN 10: 1785923439
An empowering, heartfelt collection of letters from celebrated trans women addressed to those who are transitioning. Each letter offers honest advice from their own experience on everything from make-up and dating, through to deeper subjects li ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785921032 | ISBN 10: 1785921037
This is the story of a long-lasting relationship, surviving against the odds. It is the story of Wenn and Beatrice Lawson, born almost twelve years apart in different countries with different cultures, who were both assigned female at birth. After ni ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807088357 | ISBN 10: 0807088358
In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity.  As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agr ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785922404 | ISBN 10: 1785922408
Personal, first-hand accounts from transgender and non-binary individuals and the diverse experiences and challenges they face before, during and after transition. This comprehensive introduction to trans issues details the social, physical and ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784781675 | ISBN 10: 1784781673
"Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation."(Juliet Jacques) In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surge ... more
View book details£16.50 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849352345 | ISBN 10: 1849352348
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together curr ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781626011878 | ISBN 10: 1626011877
"Living out something you've spent countless hours daydreaming about and wondering about is an experience that isn't easily put into words"(Will Krisanda) Finding Masculinity is a collection of stories from a small cross section of the transgend ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099507734 | ISBN 10: 0099507730
For years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew. They would spend a few days walking, camping, cycling, canoeing – outdoor, manly fun – before returning to everyday life: wives, children, jobs. Richard was w ... more
View book details£13.50 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780807079591 | ISBN 10: 0807079596
Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life. Though happy as a social worker and teacher, he knew something wasn't right. Then he made some changes. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781551522272 | ISBN 10: 1551522276
In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans) experience: from coming out to "passing" as straight, to the devastation of meth addicti ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781580051934 | ISBN 10: 1580051936
Helen Boyd's husband is considering becoming a woman, a choice that would alter both of their lives forever. But in what ways? She's Not the Man I Married is Boyd's intimate and thoughtful exploration of the impact her husband's gender change threate ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781889135076 | ISBN 10: 1889135070
Some are legendary - such as pilot Amelia Earhart and golf champion Babe Didrikson. Others are less familiar - balloonist Alberto Santos-Dumont and javelin thrower Ana Maria Sagi. Some went public - NFL running back David Kopay and downhill ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781560255154 | ISBN 10: 1560255153
My Husband Betty is the first book to explore the relationship of crossdressing men and their female partners. Known traditionally as tranvestites, men like Helen Boyd's husband are starting to come out and win the respect of friends, family, and soc ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780747564560 | ISBN 10: 0747564566
What does it mean to be male or female? Is who we are determined by sex or gender? Novelist and psychotherapist Amy Bloom takes us on an intimate and and humourous journey into the world of transsexuals, crossdressers and hermaphrodites, a grou ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780957873551 | ISBN 10: 0957873557
“Tony’s wife was on the phone, ringing from their interstate home. My husband’s face drained to ashen. Tony had totally castrated himself. He had lost a lot of blood and was now in surgery.” A shocking phone call from their distraught daug ... more
View book details£19.50 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780226556697 | ISBN 10: 0226556697
A renowned economist and historian, a husband and father, Donald McCloskey (now Deirdre) had crossdressed for years without wanting more. But at age fifty-two a sense that he was denying his real identity grew to the point where he knew he had to bec ... more
View book details£22.00 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780226461007 | ISBN 10: 0226461009
In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9781566394987 | ISBN 10: 1566394988
Many straight Americans would never embrace homosexuals as neighbors, co-workers, or friends. Still less would they accept as equals those transgendered individuals who work the streets to provide themselves with drug money. This book seeks ... more
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