Avgi Saketopoulou / Ann Pellegrini: Gender Without Identity

USA 2023, 180 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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The Unconscious in Translation
Gender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Rooted in the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini jettison "core gender identity" to propose, instead, that gender is something all subjects acquire and that trauma sometimes has a share in that ... Weiterlesen

Edward Whelan: Gender Confirmation Surgery

A Guide for Trans and Non-Binary People. UK 2023, 224 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Jessica Kingsley
This accessible guide covers the range of gender confirmation surgeries available for all trans and non-binary people, including breast augmentation, chest reconstruction, vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, vocal surgery and facial feminisation. With personal stories and illustrations throughout, this comprehensive resource will help you understand the full range of surgical options available. The guide offers an overview of the whole process, with ... Weiterlesen

Mithu M. Sanyal: Identitti

Transl. by Alta Price. D 2022, 400 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Voland und Quist
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a doctoral student who blogs about race with the help of Hindu goddess Kali, is in awe of Saraswati, her outrageous superstar post-colonial and race studies tutor. But Nivedita's life and sense of self begin to unravel when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Hours before she learns the truth Nivedita praises her tutor in a ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert: Gender as a Spectrum

D 2022, 294 S., geb., € 69.95
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Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert
Was macht einen Mann zum Mann? Und eine Frau zur Frau? Gibt es Menschen die weder Mann noch Frau sind? Oder vielleicht sogar beides. Die geschlechtliche Identität entwickelt sich mitunter fließend und verändert sich im Laufe eines Leben. Dabei bleibt sie stets sehr subjektiv und jeder Mensch empfindet und gestaltet die eigene Identität sehr individuell. Fotograf Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert hat ... Weiterlesen

Michal Sosna: No Pic No Chat

PL 2021, 159 S., S/W u. Farbe, Broschur, € 19.95
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Eigenverlag
The main subject of »NO_PIC_NO_CHAT« is the experience of gender - its photographs focus on transgender people. Without deceiving themselves or others they talk about their way of Self-acceptance and pride of their body and their sexuality in he most intolerant of all EU countries, Poland. Michal Sosna created this zine-like book in which he photographs and interviews people - ... Weiterlesen

Becky Chambers: To Be Taught if Fortunate

UK 2020, 153 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton
In this novella, best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.- Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features. Her experience is ... Weiterlesen

Paul B. Preciado: An Apartment on Uranus

Transl. by Charlotte Mandell. UK 2019, 275 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Fitzcarraldo
Uranus, giant planet and a deity in Greek mythology, is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the »third sex« and the rights of those who »love differently«. Following in Ulrich's footsteps, the author dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and ... Weiterlesen

Eris Young: They/Them/Their : A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities

UK 2019, 288 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Jessica Kingsley
Showing what life is like as a nonbinary or genderqueer person, this book explores relationships, mental and physical health, language use and identity and appearance, providing advice for nonbinary people and how friends and family can support them. Drawing from internet research, interviews, and studies, Young sets out to explain these issues to »the people who want to understand but ... Weiterlesen

Rebekah Fortune (R): Einfach Charlie

UK 2017, engl. OF, dt. UT, 99 min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
Charlie ist 14 und liebt es, Fußball zu spielen. Gerade hat er das Angebot bekommen, in die Jugendabteilung eines Clubs in der ersten Liga aufgenommen zu werden. Sein Vater platzt fast vor Stolz, auch weil es einst selbst Profifußballer werden wollte. Für Charlie ist die Aussicht aber ein einziger Albtraum, denn er ist eigentlich ein Mädchen, geboren im Körper eines ... Weiterlesen

Jeff Garvin: Symptoms of Being Human

Boy or Girl? Yes. USA 2017, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Harper Collins
Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressure - media and otherwise - is building up in Riley's ... Weiterlesen

Anneliese Singh: The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook

Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression. USA 2017, 216 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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New Harbinger Publications
How can you build unshakable confidence and resilience in a world still filled with ignorance, inequality, and discrimination? The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook will teach you how to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, build a community of support, and embrace your true self. Resilience is a key ingredient for psychological health and wellness. It's what gives people the ... Weiterlesen

Frank Browning: The Fate of Gender

Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future. USA 2017, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
This investigation on the modern fluidity of gender asks how people question what masculinity and femininity are, and how much of that is the result of biology and social conditioning. Social trends towards more gender fluidity were assisted by the separation of sex and reproduction after the introduction of contraceptives, and the spread of the idea of gender as performance. ... Weiterlesen

Bernd Ott / Emily Besa (eds.): All the People

D 2016, 232 pp. with numerous colour photographs, hardback, € 40.99
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Kerber
»All the People« explores the gender spectrum on a personal level with individuals living in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and New York who express and define their gender on their own terms. They identify as transgender, gender queer, drag performers, or do not identify themselves at all. These are their stories and their portraits, as they wished to be ... Weiterlesen

Michael V. Smith: My Body is Yours

A Memoir. CAN 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press
The author is a multihyphenate force of nature, a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male - a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family, a sissy, an insecure teenager desperate to disappear, and ... Weiterlesen

Sigrid Schmitz / Grit Höppner (ed.): Gendered Neurocultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses

Ö 2014, 403 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Zaglossus - challenge GENDER 2
Brain research is a key area of research to the question of what constitutes the human. With its methods of brain imaging human behavior seems to be explainable and predictable. This anthology presents from an interdisciplinary perspective differentiated analyses of scientific knowledge production that is concerned with sex/gender and the brain. It gains particular insights into the transformation or persistence ... Weiterlesen

Beatriz Preciado: Testo Junkie

Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. English by Bruce Benderson. USA 2013, 427 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Feminist Press
What constitutes a »real« man or woman in the 21st century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Beatriz Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are ... 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

S. Bear Bergman: The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

Essays. CAN 2009, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, this new collection contains essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. Throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there ... Weiterlesen