My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely Author: Kate Bornstein Publisher: ROUTLEDGE ISBN: 0415916739 Publishing Date: 1998 Pages: 272 Format: Trade paperback
Gender isn't just about "male" or "female" anymore - if you have any doubts, just turn on your television. RuPaul is as familiar as tomato ketchup with national radio and television shows, and transgendered folk are as common to talk-shows as screaming and yelling. But if the popularization of gender bending is revealing that "male" and "female" aren't enough, where are we supposed to go from here? This workbook aims to provide a practical approach to living with or without a gender. Bornstein starts from the premise that there are not just two genders performed in today's world, but countless genders lumped under the two-gender framework. Using a workbook format, the author guides you to discover your own unique Gender identity.
The Drag King Book: A First Look Author: Judith Halberstam and Del LaGrace Volcano Photographer: Del LaGrace Volcano Publisher: Serpent's Tail ISBN: 1852426071 Publishing Date: 1999 Pages: 160 Format: Trade paperback
Combining photographs and text, this book charts the rise of the drag kings. The photographs are posed shots, live action pictures and images of drag kings dressing up and practising their looks. The text explores the notion of female masculinities as exhibited by the drag king scene.
Silenced Sexualities in Schools and Universities Author: Debbie Epstein, David Telford and Sandra O'Flynn Publisher: Trentham Books ISBN: 185856249X Publishing Date: 2003 Pages: 228 Format: Trade paperback
This study deals with sexuality in all phases of formal education, from early years to university. It presents a review of the literature across the phases and combines it with original research by each author. It examines the naturalization of heterosexuality in educational settings and the playing out of sexualities in relation to other differences that make a difference, exploring the interrelations of sexuality, dis/ability, race, class and gender. A key theme is the way sexualities are manufactured in and by schools and universities. The individually written chapters, "wrapped" in the collaboratively written introduction and conclusion, deal with: the primary phase - the informal curriculum of classroom and playground; sex education and compulsory heterosexuality in primary schools; emergent sexualities in secondary schools; disability, achievement, market and sexuality; post-compulsory education, post compulsory heterosexuality, transitions to university; and the hidden curriculum of higher education - possibilities, locations and the gay scene. This book makes an original contribution to the literature on equality - or inequality - of opportunity and on sexuality. It should interest researchers, academics and teachers.
Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women Author: Deborah Blum Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 0140263489 Publishing Date: 1998 Pages: 352 Format: Softcover
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between immunology and sex to male/female gossip styles.
The results are intriguing, startling, and often very amusing. For instance, did you know that... Male testosterone levels drop in happy marriages; scientists speculate that women may use monogamy to control male behavior
Young female children who are in day-care are apt to be more secure than those kept at home; young male children less so
Anthropologists classify Western societies as "mildly polygamous" The Los Angeles Times has called Sex on the Brain "superbly crafted science writing, graced by unusual compassion, wit, and intelligence, that forms an important addition to the literature of gender studies."
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
Gender identity
The Drag King Book: A First Look
Silenced Sexualities in Schools and Universities
Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women