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15 December 2023

Books on Gender Variance in 2023 - Part 2

 





$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books. 

Media

  • $£¥ € Ana Horvat, Orly Lael Netzer, Sarah McRae & Julie Rak (eds). Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational. Routledge, 2023.

Religious

  • Joe W Gresham. LGBT, Society, The Church & the Bible. Kindle, 2023.

  • Austen Hartke. Transforming: Updated and Expanded Edition with Study Guide: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians. John Knox Press, 2023.

  • Lori Anne Holt. Embracing Androgyny: Androgyny in Faith and Society. Kindle, 2023.

  • Joseph Plaster. Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin. Duke University Press, 2023.

  • Bryce E Rich. Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy: Beyond Male and Female. Fordham University Press, 2023.

  • Rubel Shelley. Male and Female God Created Them: A Biblical Review of LGBTQ+ Claims. College Press Publishing Company, 2023.

  • Max K Strassfeld. Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature. University of California Press, 2022.


  • Ken Summers. Weirdly Queer: Exploring the LGBTQ Perspective of the Paranormal, Occult, and Mysterious World. 2023.

Legal & Activism

  • $£¥ € Aileen Kennedy. Law, Gender Identity, and the Brain: Exploring Brain-Sex Theories in Judicial Decisions on Trans and Intersex Minors. Routledge, 2023.

Crime

  • $£¥ € Abbie Goldberg, Danielle Slakoff & Carrie Buist (eds). The (Mis)Representation of Queer Lives in True Crime. Routledge, 2023.

Biology

  • Daphna Joel & Luba Vikhanski. Gender mosaic : beyond the myth of the male and female brain. Little, Brown Spark, 2019.

Music

  • Will Hermes. Lou Reed. Farrar, straus and Giroux, 2023.

  • William Sauerland. Queering Vocal Pedagogy: A Handbook for Teaching Trans and Genderqueer Singers and Fostering Gender-Affirming Spaces. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

  • Sylvan Song. Queering the Western Art Music Canon: A Call for Inclusivity and Representation. Self Publishers, 2023.

  • McKenzie Wark. Raving. Duke University Press, 2023.

Drag

  • Jacob Bloomfeld. Drag: A British History. University of California Press, 2023.

  • Mark Edward & Stephen Farrier (eds). Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers. Methuen, 2020.


  • Elyssa Maxx Goodman. Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City. Hanover Square Press, 2023.

  • Craig Seligman. Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag. Public Affairs, 2023.

  • Janet Tennant. It's a Drag: Cross-Dressing in Performance. Applause, 2022.

  • Sasha Velour. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag. Harper, 2023.

Theatre & Cinema

  • Tre’vell Anderson. We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film. Andscape Books, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Lucy J Miller. Distancing Representations in Transgender Film: Identification, Affect, and the Audience. State University of New York Press, 2023.

Sports

  • Sharron Davies & Craig Lord. Unfair Play: The Battle For Women's Sport. Forum Press, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Rogs Martins. Finding Fairness: Transgender Athletes in Women's Sports. Lulu, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Amy M West. The Transgender Athlete: A Guide for Sports Medicine. Academic Press, 2023.

Guidebooks

  • Sage Buch. The Transmasculine Guide to Physical Transition Workbook: For Trans, Nonbinary, and Other Masculine Folks. Microcosm Publishing, 2023

  • Jeannie Gainsburg. The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

  • B Hayes. The FTM Handbook. 2023.

  • Laura Jacobs (ed). Surviving Transphobia. Jessica Lingsleu, 2023.

  • Alo Johnson. Am I Trans Enough?: How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self. Jessica Kingsley, 2023.

  • Kiley May. How to Love a Trans Girl: On Romance, Dating and Men Who Adore Us. Dundurn Press, 2023.

  • Rae McDaniel. Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self. Balance, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Matthew Mills &Sean Pert. Working with Trans Voice: A Guide to Support and Inspire New, Developing and Established Practitioners. Routledge, 2023.

  • Matthew Waites. Transition to Success: A Self-Esteem and Confidence Workbook for Trans People. Jessica Kingsley, 2023.

Couples & Family

  • Minou Bahrami. Transcultural. 2023.

  • Peggy Gillespie (ed). Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families. Skinner House Books, 2023.

  • Brynn Tannehill (ed). My Child Told Me They're Trans...What Do I Do?: A Q&A Guide for Parents of Trans Children. Jessica Kingsley, 2023.

Non-Binary

  • $£¥ € Jai Ajar. Breaking the Binary: A History of Non-Binary Activism. Lulu, 2023.

  • Ocean Atlas. Nonbinary For Beginners: Everything you’ve been afraid to ask about gender, pronouns, being an ally, and black & white thinking. 2022.

Intersex

  • François Soyer. The 'Catalan Hermaphrodite' and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

  • Amanda Lock Swarr. Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine. Duke University Press, 2023.

Clinics

  • $£¥ € Sandra Eder. How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

  • $£¥ € Mick van Trotsenburg, Rixt AC Luikenaar &Maria Cristina Meriggiola (eds). Context, Principles, and Practice of Transgynecology. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Trans/GLBT history

  • Bettina Aptheker. Communists in Closets” Queering the History 1930s-1990s. Routledge, 2023.

  • Elspeth H Brown. Work!: A Queer History of Modeling. Duke University Press, 2019.

  • Emily Cousens. Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

  • Jens Dobler. Polizei und Homosexuelle in der Weimarer Republik: Zur Konstruktion des Sündenbabels . Metropol-Verlag, 2020.

  • Jennifer V Evans. The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism. Duke University Press, 2023.

  • Benno Gammerl. Queer: Eine deutsche Geschichte vom Kaiserreich bis heute. Hanser, 2023.

  • Kit Heyam. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. Little Brown, 2023.

  • Magnus Hirschfeld (ed) translated by Michael Lombardi-Nash. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries. Urania manuscripts, 2023. 5 volumes.

  • Adam Johnson. Transcending Boundaries: A Journey Through Transgender History. 2023.

  • Grace Elisabeth Lavery. Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques. Princeton University Press, 2023.

  • Ina Linge. Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing. University of Michigan Press, 2023.

  • Hannah McElhinney. Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History. Hardie Grant Books AU, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Douglas Pretsell. The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

  • $£¥ € Douglas Pretsell. Queer Voices in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1883–1901. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

  • Nino Strachey. Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England. Atria Books, 2022.

City and province Histories

  • Geoff Alexander. We Weren't Angels: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs and Crime in Boston's Combat Zone. McFarland and Company, Inc., 2023.

  • William Burton & Barry Loveland. Out in Central Pennsylvania: The History of an LGBTQ Community. Penn State University Press, 2020.

  • Kelley Matthew Coures. Out in Evansville: An LGBTQ+ History of River City. History Press, 2023. Evansville, Indiana.

  • Justin Guess. The Little Book of Queer Tennessee History: A Journey through Newspaper Articles between 1790 and 1996. 2023.

  • William Lipsky. LGBTQ+ Trailblazers of San Francisco. History PR, 2023.


  • Andrea Rottman. Queer Lives across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Countries and minorities

  • Rustam Alexander. Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR. Manchester University Press, 2023.

  • B H Bashir. Pakistan and LGBTQ+ Issue. Transcending Empires: Khwaja Saras, Hijras, and Pakistan's Transgender Tapestry. 2023.

  • $£¥ € Danila Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello & Summer Minerva (eds). Italian Trans Geographies. State University of New York Press, 2023.

  • Omar Kasmani. Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere. Duke University Press, 2023.

  • Wilfred Labiosa. The LGBT Cuban Revolution. Deletrea, 2023.


  • Ruth Loe Malloy (ed). Hijras: Who We Are. Collections Canada, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Veerendra Mishra. Transgenders in India: An Introduction. Routledge, 2023.

  • Noah Riseman. Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910. Melbourne University Press, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Lopamudra Sengupta. Human Rights of the Third Gender in India: Beyond the Binary. Routledge India, 2022.

  • Jeffrey Schneider. Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany. University of Toronto Press, 2023. Both cisvestism and transvestism.

  • Katie Sutton. Sexuality in Modern German History. Bloombury, 2023.

Race and Gender

  • Ronnie Gladden. White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female. October Publishing, 2023.

  • Jennifer Dominique Jones. Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Internet

  • Avery Dame-Griff. The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet. New York University Press, 2023.

Written by a trans person  

  • Edward D Wood. When the Topic is Sex. BearManor Media, 2022.

Fiction

  • Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay (translated by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch). Dandelion Daughter. Espalnade Books, 2023.

  • Daniel A Cohen (ed). The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic. University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. First published in 1815, The Female Marine purported to be the autobiography of a woman who, in order to escape the shame of having a child out of wedlock and subsequent work as a prostitute, disguised herself as a boy and joined the Marines. The popularity of this narrative led to its being reprinted 19 times in 3 years and gave rise to a series of sequels.

  • Hazel Jane Plante. Any Other City. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023.

  • Alan Lopez. When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent. University of Arizona Press, 2023.

  • Andrew Joseph White. Hell Followed with Us. Peachtree, 2023.

Poetry

  • Eleanor Rosewood. Trans Love Poems: Illustrated Transgender Poems. 2023.

Transphobic

  • Miriam Grossman. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness. Skyhorse, 2023.

Miscellaneous

  • Eleonor Adler. Exploring Gender Diversity: Understanding the Spectrum of Genders. 2023

  • K J Cerankowski. Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming. Pinctum books, 2021.

  • Helen Dale. Understanding Gender Variance: Transgender, Intersex, Non-Binary & Gender Fluid Individuals. Tranzcare, 2023.

  • Debanuj Dasgupta , Joseph Donica & Margot Weiss (eds). Queer Then and Now: The David R. Kessler Lectures, 2002-2020. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2023.

  • K Allison Hammer. Masculinity in Transition. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Jennifer Ingrey. Rethinking School Spaces for Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender Diverse Youth: Trans-ing the School Washroom. Routledge, 2023.

  • Michelle Miller. What Is A Woman? Answers From A Transgender Perspective. 2023.

  • Miguel Missé. The Myth of the Wrong Body. Polity, 2022.

  • Tash Oakes-Monger. All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy. Jessica Kingsley, 2023.

  • $£¥ € Candace Moore. Marginal Production Cultures: Infrastructures of Sexual Minority and Transgender Media. Routledge, 2023.

  • Adrián Sánchez. La Patologización del colectivo Trans como una política de control de población: Derechos Humanos. Identidad de género y la Nueva Eugenesia. 2023.

  • Shon Faye. The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All. Verso, 2023.

  • Eric A Stanley. Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable. Duke University Press, 2021.

  • $£¥ € J E Sumerau. The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Transgender Studies. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023.

  • Natalia P Zhikhareva. On Your Terms: Gender Transition Redefined for Adults. DR Z Consulting LLC, 2023.






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