Max Wolf Valerio: The Testosterone Files

My Hormonal and Social Transformation from FEMALE to MALE. USA 2006, 344 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Max Wolf Valerio crafts a raw, gripping, and poetic account of life before, during, and after injecting testosterone. Valerio's detailed observations about a lesbian transitioning from female to a heterosexual male highlights the physical and emotional differences between women and men, and alternately challenges and confirms readers' assumptions about gender. »The Testosterone Files« addresses the most fundamental issues of transitioning, ... Weiterlesen

Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon P. Mint: Transgender Rights

USA 2006,368 pp., brochure, € 19.39
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Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, and grass-roots organizing, the book is an resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries. Moving beyond media representations to grapple with the real lives and issues of transgender people, this book will launch a new moment for human rights activism in ... Weiterlesen

Leslie Feinberg: Drag King Dreams

USA 2006, 303 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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»Stone Butch Blues« author Leslie Feinberg's new novel about love and struggle in N.Y.C.'s East Village - it takes us on an unforgettable new gender journey. After a harrowing encounter with a bigot on the PATH train, Max Rabinowitz, drag king and bouncer in an East Village drag club, quarrels with cross-dressing friend Vickie who's brutally murdered that night. Soon ... Weiterlesen

Deborah Rudacille: The Riddle of Gender

USA 2006, 369 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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When the author learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to try to understand why her friend wanted to have testosterone injected and to undergo a mastectomy in order to live as a man. Coming at the subject from several angles - historical, sociological, psychological, medical - she discovered that gender ... Weiterlesen

Deborah Rudacille: The Riddle of Gender

USA 2006, 358 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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When the author learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to try to understand why her friend wanted to have testosterone injected and to undergo a mastectomy in order to live as a man. Coming at the subject from several angles - historical, sociological, psychological, medical - she discovered that gender ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: In a Queer Time & Place

USA 2005, 213 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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In her first book since the critically acclaimed »Female Masculinity«, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms - especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and ... Weiterlesen

Joanne Meyerwitz: How Sex Changed

USA 2004, 363 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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The author tells you all you need to know about the social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the USA. It's the human story about people who have a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. Over the past century, when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex ... Weiterlesen

Henry Rubin: Self-Made Men

USA 2003, 217 pp., brochure, € 21.99
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This book contributes to the understanding of »transsexuals« and gender transitions. The author combines contemporary life-history interviews, historical documents, and several schools of theory to create a strikingly original interpretation of the nature and histoy of transgender identities. Smoothly blending philosophical discussion with gripping passages as female-to-male transsexuals tell their stories in their own words, »Self-Made Men« captures the full ... Weiterlesen

Helen Boyd: My Husband Betty

USA 2003, 285pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Author Helen Boyd is a happily married woman whose husband enjoys sharing her wardrobe - and she has written the 1st book on transgendered men to focus on their relationships and their female partners. Traditionally known as cross-dressers, transvestites, or drag queens, men like Helen's husband are a diverse and sometimes contentious lot who don't always conform to stereotype. In ... Weiterlesen

Way Out: The Way Out Tranny Guide - WayOut of the Closet

USA 2003, 336 pp., brochure, € 25.89
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The 11th edition of the »Bible« of the transgendered world. This book aims each year to increase awareness and understanding of the cross-dressing and transgender phenomenon. The scale, and diversity of this growing scene is explored through many contributions of inspirational reports and pictures from all around the globe. These reports and the pictures that illustrate them create a very ... Weiterlesen

Colette Chiland: Transsexualism

USA 2003, 193pp., brochure, € 31.59
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What is a person's gender? How do we determine whether someone is a man or a woman? Who gets to decide the sex of an individual: the individual, parents, doctors, judges, politicians, any god? And how does medical transformation of one's body impact an individual's status psychologically, socially, culturally, and biologically? In this work - originally published in France in ... Weiterlesen

Devdutt Pattanaik: The Man Who Was a Woman

And Other Queer Tales of Hindu Lore. USA 2002, 164 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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A god transforms into a nymph and enchants another god. A king becomes pregnant.A prince discovers on his wedding night that he is not a man. Another king has children who call him both father and mother. A hero turns into a eunuch and wears female apparel. A princess has to turn into a man before she can avenge her ... Weiterlesen

Francis Wheen: Who was Dr Charlotte Bach?

UK 2002, 141 pp., hardback, € 17.59
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In 1971 a curious new figure appeared on the London academic scene. Charlotte Bach was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest, and she had a new theory of sex and evolution which was soon being heralded as one of the greatest intellectual advances of the 20th century. She would demonstrate beyond doubt that sexual deviation was the mainspring ... Weiterlesen

Luc Brisson: Sexual Ambivalence

USA 2002, 196pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book collects and translates most of the extant Graeco-Roman writing on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were both female and male. The author provides a commentary that situates the rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections- from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources - describe cases of either simultaneous dual sexuality, as ... Weiterlesen

Vanessa Sheridan: Crossing over

USA 2001, 157 pp., brochure, € 20.59
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Claiming her identity as both christian and transgendered, the author offers insight into the transgender experience and confronts the harsh reality of injustice prevalent in society and in the church toward those who are differently gendered. Her passionate writing offers hope for those who are transgendered as well as challenging all christians to include transgendered persons into the full life ... Weiterlesen

Leslie Feinberg: Trans Liberation

USA 1998, 147 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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In this collection of speeches and new writing, Leslie Feinberg argues passionately for the acceptance of all trans peoples - and for the absolute necessity of building coalitions between all progressive political groups. Speaking to an audience of 350 male heterosexual crossdressers and their partners at the Texas »T« Party - a speech at which Feinberg was the only person ... Weiterlesen

Kate Bornstein: Gender Outlaw

On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. USA 1995, 253 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Told with humor, honesty, and outrageous flair, »Gender Outlaw« is the unique story of a transgendered woman who never stops questioning our central cultural assumptions. Whether she is describing the nuts and bolts of her sex-change surgery or outing the hidden gender messages in popular culture, Bornstein pushes us gently but profoundly to the farthest borders of the gender frontier. ... Weiterlesen

Rose Tremain: Sacred Country

UK 1992, 321 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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»I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy.« Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's »Orlando«, ... Weiterlesen