David Valentine: Imagining Transgender

USA 2008, 303 pp., brochure, € 24.20
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This ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism shows how activists in the 1990s embraced the category. The category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. The author conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, ... Weiterlesen

Pagan Kennedy: The First Man-Made Man

USA 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 12.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition, and there was no known solution. During a time when plastic surgery and synthetic hormones were in their infancy, Dillon pursued a course of action that was both socially unheard of and potentially life threatening. From upper-class ... Weiterlesen

Julia Serano: Whipping Girl

A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. USA 2007, 390 pp., pb., € 24.95
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A provocative manifesto, »Whipping Girl« tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations ? both pre- and post-transition ? to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward ... Weiterlesen

Ski Hunter: Coming Out and Disclosures

USA 2007, 219 pp., brochure, € 22.59
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This book is a one-of-a-kind guide to the coming-out process for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, how to prepare for disclosure, and how disclosure is received in various groups. It also examines sexual orientation and identities, developmental models of coming out, disclosure in adolescence, midlife, or later, coming out to parents and family members, and disclosure to non-family. Moreover, ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Erhardt: Head Over Heels

USA 2007, 233 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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This book tells the real stories of ordinary women living extraordinary lives with their gender-variant natal male partners (cross-dressers, transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals). These unique women discuss, with honesty and great candor, how they first learned of their partners' gender issues, how they've coped with the emotions that followed, how they've dealt with concerns about privacy/secrecy, and how they've handled ... Weiterlesen

Helen Boyd: She's Not the Man I Married

USA 2007, 311 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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Helen Boyd's husband is considering becoming a woman, a choice that would alter both of their lives forever. But in what ways? The author explores the impact her husband's gender change threatens to have on their relationship. And how about her own feelings about being married to a transgender partner. Boyd, an androgynous-looking heterosexual woman (often mistaken for a lesbian), ... Weiterlesen

Duncan Tucker (R): Transamerica

USA 2005, engl.OF, engl.UT, 99 min., € 18.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Comedy drama starring Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree. One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and in trouble with the law. Bree helps her son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), who believes that she is simply a do-gooder. She buys a car and the two take a road ... Weiterlesen

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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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