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 Transgender
Care : Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information, and Personal Accounts
by Gianna E. Israel, Donald E.Tarver, M.D., Joy Diane Shaffer, M.D. Price: $39.95
By empowering clients to be well-informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role, that of "Gender Specialist." The book contains a wealth of practical information and accounts of people's experiences about coming out to one's employer or to one's friends or spouse. Several essays spell out the legal rights of transgender people with regard to insurance, work, marriage, and the use of rest rooms. The second part of the book consists of thirteen essays on a range of controversial topics.
by Holly Devor Price: $49.95
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five female-to-male transsexuals. Until now, little has been known about these individuals, and questions persist about them. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as transsexual? What do they do about it? How do their families cope? Who loves them? What does it mean for the rest of us?
To answer these and other questions, Holly Devor spent many years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgendered people, many of whom became her friends. She traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce in transsexual identity, culminating in gender and sex transformation. After an introduction which grounds the discussion in historical and theoretical contexts, the author takes a life course approach to understanding female-to-male transsexualism. Using her subjects' own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescent, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify female-to-male transsexuals' images of themselves as people w ho should be men.
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Sir or Madam : The Autobiography of a Female-To-Male Transsexual
by Mark Rees Price: $19.95
Rees was the first TS in the UK to go to the European Court of Human Rights. Also he is one of the founders of Press For Change the campaign and lobby group on behalf of TS/TG rights in the UK. He is a great campaigner on behalf of the cause with a very public profileand a leading figure in the UK FtM network.
by Janye Count & Rupert Smith Price: $17.99
The memoirs of a '70s punk/drag sub-icon whose unique trajectory across the counterculture has supplied her with great troves of decadent gossip as well as novel insights into life as a transsexual. County, nee Wayne Rogers, grew up a "sissy boy" in small-town Georgia and adopted flamboyant habits of makeup and dress while still in his teens, in the mid-'60s. Moving to New York City, County established a niche on the hippie edge of the gay community--in the summer of 1969 County both rioted at the Stonewall and grooved at Woodstock. While working menial day jobs, he was soon sharing an apartment with Warhol drag superstars Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis, whose outrageous personalities and talents are the subject of some delightful, seamy anecdotes. Under Curtis's influence County adopted an extravagant, absurdist approach to cross-dressing that would be an important vehicle in an ongoing transformation from "him" to "her." County acted in surrealist theatrical farces like the Warhol-sponsored Pork and DJ'ed at Max's Kansas City, where she began performing with a rock band in 1972. When punk exploded, County started making records, performing, and rubbing shoulders with Sid Vicious and the Clash. But strained by her amphetamine use and tensions within her band, County's odd career in rock had largely collapsed by the end of the '70s (after a hiatus, she has returned today to recording and performing). County discusses with disarming forthrightness the ambiguities of gender and her decision to forgo sex-change surgery (she does take female hormones). And she avoids both self-pity and backbiting, recalling frankly even her stint as a prostitute in '80s Berlin and London. County's lively memoir illuminates the original intermingling of gay and punk subcultures that's experiencing an energetic resurgence today. (2 b&w photo inserts)
 The Unsinkable Bambi Lake : A Fairy Tale Containing the Dish on Cockettes, Punks and Angels
by Bambi Lake, Alvin Orloff, Exene Cervenka (Introduction) Price: $11.95
In this tell-all autobiography, Bambi Lake, glamour queen chanteuse, stripper, and film star, exposes deeply hidden secrets about she-male America. Her evolution from innocent, suburban Johnny Purcell into fabulous, sophisticated Bambi Lake covers San Francisco's psychedelic '60s, gay revolution in the '70s, and punk rock scene in the '80s. Absolutely nothing is off-topic in this sexy, revealing drama.
"Her life has been a protest march in high heels..." ÑExene Cervenka
by Wallace Swanson (Editor) Price: $14.95
A timely primer on the major public policy issues facing communities on the eve of the 21st century. . . . By combining research with practical field experience and personal perspectives, this book will appeal to almost anyone interested in advocacy within social systems." - Gary Remafedi, MD, MPH, Assoc. Prof. of Pediatrics, University of Minn.
"Provides analysis and guidance for public administrators and citizens to develop programs and policies to overcome hurtful stereotypes and promote acceptance that should be supported by all citizens who value the principles of American democracy." - Mary M. Timney, PhD, Director, Master of Public Administration Program, University of Cincinnati
 Transgender
Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul
by Leslie Feinberg Price: $17.00
In this fascinating personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg - one of the most prominent transgender rights activists today - unearths a vast body of evidence that throughout history there have always been people who defy cultural boundaries of sex and gender. During an embattled childhood and teenage years as a gender outlaw, Feinberg began a search for others struggling to assert an identity. What s/he found was a long tradition of individuals fighting back against injustice - from Joan of Arc to the Welsh peasants who cross-dressed to protest taxes, from the Black and Latina drag queens who led the Stonewall rebellion to transsexual parents fighting for custody today. Traditional society often exacted a terrible price from these transgender warriors, and Feinberg urges us now to receive them as hero/ines and visionaries. Illustrated with many previously unpublished historical images and contemporary photographs, Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening excursion through the history of sex and gender expression and a powerful testament to the resilient and rebellious spirit.
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Am My Own Woman : The Outlaw Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's
Most Distinguished Transvestite
by Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Jean Hollander (Translator). Price: $12.95
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (nee Lothar Berfelde) has lived openly as a transvestite since the 1940s. In high-heeled sandals and a good suit, Charlotte collected ornate, hand-crafted antiques of the Grunderzeit period through the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the GDR, and into the unified Federal Republic of Germany. The subject of an acclaimed film by Rosa von Praunheims. 33 photos.
by Randi Ettner Price: $14.95
Dr Randi Ettner is a psychologist who has devoted her life to counseling those with gender dysphoria, helping them to adjust to society's rigid rules when possible and, when not possible, helping them to cross the rigid barrier we call gender. She has written a sensitive, caring book about her experiences, humorous at times, heart breaking at others. Ettner's book is a wonderful antidote to the cruelty of talk tv, but, more importantly, will provide an important window on this condition that, unless addressed can easily result in mutilation, victimization or suicide.
by Mariya Sparks (Editor), David Hatfield Sparks (Editor), Rand Connor, Mariah Sparks. Price: $29.95
Did you know that in medieval folklore a person might change sex by passing under a rainbow? Or that same-sex unions have been celebrated by many of the world's peoples? Or that Sappho, Mishima, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Boy George number among those who have explored the spiritual dimension of gender and sexuality in their works? The Encyclopedia contains over 1500 entries, with a comprehensive index and bibliography, and a foreword by Gloria E. Anzaldua (editor of This Bridge Called My Back). Randy P. Conner is the author of Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections Between Homoeroticism and the Sacred (1993). David H. Sparks is a writer and ethnomusicologist whose work has been published in the Afro-Hispanic Review and elsewhere. Mariya Sparks, their daughter, is an actor and writer, whose play Primas premiered as a film in the 1995 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
The Transvestite Memoirs and the Story of the Marquise-Marquis De Banneville
by R.H.F. Scott (Translator), Abbe De Choisy Price: $18.95
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