Trans-Sister Radio (Vintage Contemporaries) Author: Chris Bohjalian Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375705171 Publishing date: August 14, 2001 Pages: 368 Format: Paperback
What is the relationship between gender and sexuality? How do your feelings about yourself as a man or woman affect your sexual preferences? How important are your genitalia to your self-image? Bohjalian explores these questions with honesty and compassion. Allison, an elementary-school teacher, takes a film class and falls in love with Dana, her professor. Dana feels the same way about Allison--but when he reveals his plans to undergo a sex change operation, Allison is tormented with questions. She loves Dana as a man--what if she isn't attracted to Dana as a woman? Why should Dana's gender matter if Allison loves the person inside the body? Once word gets out, outraged parents complain that Allison's relationship with Dana is a moral danger to the children she teaches, so that Allison risks losing not only Dana, but her job as well. Provocative and insightful, this gender-bending novel will make readers question what it means to be a man or a woman, and how strongly these identities are influenced by biological and cultural pressures.
Becoming a Visible Man Author: Jamison Green Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press ISBN: 082651457X Publishing Date: May 1, 2004 Pages: 264 Format: Paperback
Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment. For more than a decade, Green has provided educational programs on gender-variance issues for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, social-science conferences and classes, continuing legal education, religious education, and medical venues. His comprehensive knowledge of the processes and problems encountered by transgendered and transsexual people?as well as his legal advocacy work to help ensure that gender-variant people have access to the same rights and opportunities as others?enable him to explain the issues as no transsexual author has previously done.
Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green?s own experiences?including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment surgery?the book examines transsexualism as a human condition, and sex reassignment as one of the choices that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. Relating the FTM psyche and experience to the social and political forces at work in American society, Becoming a Visible Man also speaks consciously of universal principles that concern us all, particularly the need to live one?s life honestly, openly, and passionately.
A photographic study of female-to-male (FTMs) transsexuals. Using before-and-after photographs of FTMs, accompanied by self-portraits and autobiographical text, the work includes photographs of genital reconstructions, with text by three FTMs who discuss how they feel about their surgery.
Lessons from the Intersexed Author: Suzanne J. Kessler Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813525306 Publishing Date: 1998 Pages: 208 Format: Trade paperback
Focusing on intersexuality - having physical gender markers that are neither female or male - the author examines the social institutions that are mobilized to maintain the two seemingly objective sexual categories. She argues that we need to re-think the meaning of gender, genitals and sexuality.
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America Editor: Will Roscoe Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 0312224796 Publishing Date: 2000 Pages: 320 Format: Trade paperback
In many Native American tribal societies, it was not uncommon for some men to live as women and some women to live as men. In this land, the original America, men who wore women?s clothes and did women?s work became artists, ambassadors, and religious leaders, and women sometimes became warriors, hunters and even chiefs. Same-sex marriages flourished. Berdaches?individuals who combine male and female social roles with traits unique to their status as a third gender?have been documented in more than 150 North American tribes. By looking at this aspect of non-Western culture, Roscoe challenges the basis of the dualistic way most Americans think about sexuality, and shakes the foundation of the way we understand and define gender.
Trans-Sister Radio (Vintage Contemporaries)
Becoming a Visible Man
transsexual
Body Alchemy: Photographs
Lessons from the Intersexed
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America