Kim Fu: For Today I Am a Boy

USA 2014, 242 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Peter Huang and his sisters - elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant - grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter's own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his Chinese father. At ... Weiterlesen

Joy Ladin: Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders

USA 2013, 270 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman: Joy Ladin. In »Through the Door of Life,« Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, ... Weiterlesen

Afsaneh Najmabadi: Professing Selves

Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran. USA 2013, 432 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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Duke University Press
Since the mid-1980s, Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In »Professing Selves«, the author explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable »true« transsexual and other categories ... Weiterlesen

Molly Haskell: My Brother My Sister

Story of a Transformation. USA 2013, 213 pp., hardbound, € 25.95
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Penguin USA
On a visit to New York, the brother of well-known film critic Molly Haskell drops a bombshell: Nearing age sixty and married, he has decided to come out as a transsexual and to undergo gender reassignment. Despite Haskell's liberal views on the changing roles of men and women - in film and in society - she is dumb-founded. »Why now?« ... Weiterlesen

Jennifer Finney Boylan: Stuck in the Middle With You

A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders. USA 2013, 288 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 21.95
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Crown
A father for six years, a mother for ten, and for a time in between, neither, or both, Boylan has seen parenthood from both sides of the gender divide. When her two children were young, Boyland came out as a transgender, and as Jenny transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother, her family ... Weiterlesen

Dylan Edwards: Transposes

USA 2012, 118 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Northwest
Dylan Edwards' »Transposes« separates gender from sexuality and illustrates six fascinating true stories of transgender men who also happen to be gay or bisexual. The result is laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreaking, challenging, inventive, informative, and invites the reader to explore what truly makes a man a man.

Timothy Mo: Pure

UK 2012, 388 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Turnaround
Anglo-Chinese author Timothy Mo - with a string of Booker Prize nominations - slipped off the radar when he moved to the Far East and started to self-publish his work. »Pure« - his new book - is a morally ambiguous romp about Islamic jihad in South East Asia as seen through the eyes of a rumbustious Thai ladyboy. Snooky, a ... Weiterlesen

Christine Benvenuto: Sex Changes

A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving on. USA 2013, 295 pp., brochure, € 15.99
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SMP
What do you do when the other woman is your husband? Christine and her husband had been married for 20 years and we raising their three children in a beautiful New England town. One night in bed he turned to her and said, »I'm thinking constantly about my gender«, adding that he was unhappy in his body and wanted to ... Weiterlesen

Manuel Ricardo Garcia: TransMen of the World

D 2012, 133 S., Farbe, engl. Text, geb., € 41.10
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Malawerkstatt
Dieses Buch ist der fotografische Output eines internationalen Projekts, das sich mit selbstbewussten Frau-zu-Mann-Transsexuellen (FTMs) vor, während und nach der Geschlechtsumwandlung befasst hat. Zu diesem Zweck bereiste der Fotograf die halbe Welt und stellt hier nun 30 Transmänner in ihren jeweiligen Heimatstädten vor. Er legte dabei großen Wert auf Vielfalt - was das Alter, die Herkunft, die Hautfarbe, die kulturellen ... Weiterlesen

Joy Landin: Through the Door of Life

A Jewish Journey Between Genders. USA 2012, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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University of Wisconsin Press - Living Out
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned after a year of »involuntary research leave« to the orthodox Jewish campus as a woman - Joy Ladin. In this book, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With ... Weiterlesen

Kate Bornstein: A Queer and Pleasant Danger

A memoir. USA 2012, 258 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Beacon
»I was born male and now I've got medical and government documents that say I'm female - but I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man.« - Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave, playwright, dyke, gender outlaw, Buddhist - these are just a few words that have defined Kate Bornstein during her extraordinary life. ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Pepper (ed.): Transitions of the Heart

Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children. USA 2012, 204 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis
This is the first collection to invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children to tell their own stories. Often »transitioning« socially and emotionally alongside their children, parents have their own parallel process to work through, and few resources to depend on. The editor has gathered voices of women from all walks of life, with children ranging in age from ... Weiterlesen

Diane Ehrensaft: Gender Born, Gender Made

USA 2011, 304 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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No two children who bend the so-called rules of gender do so in quite the same way. But all gender-nonconforming children have one thing in common - they need support to thrive in a society that still subscribes to a binary system of gender. Dr. Diane Ehrensaft has worked with children like Felicia, Sam, and Maggie for over 30 years. ... Weiterlesen

Tristan Taormino (ed.): Take Me There

Trans and Genderqueer Erotica. USA 2011, 293 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis - Trans and Genderqueer Erotica
In mainstream media, the erotic identities, sex lives and fantasies of transgender and genderqueer people are often oversimplified, sensationalized or invisible. »Take Me There« is an erotica collection unlike any other, celebrating the pleasure, heat and diversity of transgender and genderqueer sexualities. These stories will take you from San Francisco to Israel, from heartache to lust, from ballet shoes to ... Weiterlesen

Chaz Bono: Transition

The Story of How I Became a Man. USA 2011, 245 pp. with photographs, hardbound, € 21.29
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For better or worse, since his TV debut at the age of two, she has always been thought of as Sonny and Cher's adorable daughter, Chastity. Her parents' decision to put her on their TV show has shaped the course of her entire life: that cherubic little girl from the TV screen would grow up to be a middle-aged man. ... Weiterlesen

Raveh Kaldera: Hermaphrodeities

The Transgender Spirituality Workbook. UK 2010, 338 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Transgendered people have long been robbed of their own spiritual history, not knowing that there were once times and places where ours was considered a spiritual path in and of itself. This book explores both our spiritual history and our modern predicaments, shaping the outline of a contemporary spiritual path for those of us who don't fit into just one ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cart (ed.): How Beautiful the Ordinary

USA 2009, 368 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
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A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer school where he had »an accidental ... Weiterlesen

Joanne Herman: Transgender Explained

For Those Who Are Not. USA 2009, 148 pp., brochure, € 13.49
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Joanne Herman, a transgender woman who read everything in sight to understand her own gender incongruity, has been helping others with her non-complicated explanations of transgender for almost a decade. Now she has written down her explanations for all to read. Organized by topic into short, easy-to-read chapters, the book is perfect for parents, relatives, colleagues, friends, allies and even ... Weiterlesen