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1	As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl more books like this by John Colapinto add to wishlist This study of a famous sexual reassignment case raises issues of nurture versus nature and examines feuds within the medical community. The subject was one of a set of twins, and the surgery followed a circumcision that went wrong. The twins were raised as one male and one female--until David, as he now calls himself, learned the truth in his teen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Danish Girl more books like this by David Ebershoff add to wishlist In the 1920s, Greta, an artist, marries Einar, who models for her--sometimes in women's clothes, which awakens his desire to actually become a woman. Greta supports him, and they find a surgeon who is willing to perform the operation--an event that, understandably, changes their relationship irrevocably. The novel is based on the true story of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution more books like this by Pagan Kennedy add to wishlist In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; "transsexuals "had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. Laura Dillon did all she could on her own: she cut her hair, dressed in men's clothing, bound her breasts with a ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism-For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals more books like this by Mildred L Brown, Chloe Ann Rounsley add to wishlist The first nonclinical book that looks at transsexualism. What is it like to grow up in the wrong body? Are transsexuals considered homosexuals? Is a transvestite the same as a transsexual? This book provides definitions and distinctions, and offer a fundamental education about transsexualism. Using real-life stories, actual letters, and poems, ... see all copies from $8.19! new only from $11.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Hedwig and the Angry Inch more books like this by John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask add to wishlist In this rock-opera/play, the title character leaves Germany (as a man) with a sweet-talking American GI who promises him a better life in America--if he'll become a woman when he gets there. Hedwig (then called Hansel) agrees, but when he wakes up from the operation, the now-mostly-female Hedwig finds herself more mutilated than transformed. ... see all copies from $2.88! new only from $9.00! \| first editions
6	How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States more books like this by Joanne Meyerowitz add to wishlist "How Sex Changed" is a fascinating social, cultural and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class and gender, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach more books like this by Suzanne J Kessler add to wishlist This may well be one of the most important scientific books ever written about sex. {It} will undoubtedly create a heated controversy among sex researchers and might change the ways we all look at biological species. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $16.27! \| SVS
8	Conundrum more books like this by Jan Morris add to wishlist In 1974, the celebrated travel writer Jan Morris wrote this engrossing chronicle of her sex-change operation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis more books like this by Ali Smith add to wishlist Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male more books like this by Janice G Raymond add to wishlist Fifteen years ago, when it was first published, "The Transsexual Empire" challenged the medical psychiatric definition of transsexualism as a disease and sex conversion hormones and surgery as the cure. It exposed the antifeminist stereotyping that requires candidates for transsexual surgery to prove themselves by conforming to subjective, ... see all copies from $10.89! new only from $18.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male more books like this by Max Wolf Valerio add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.20! \| SVS
12 view cover	Cock & bull more books like this by Will Self add to wishlist This black comedy is divided into two parts. In the first a woman grows a penis and rapes her husband. In the second a man grows a vagina behind his knee and is then seduced by his doctor. Self was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for his collection "The Quantity Theory of Insanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Cock and Bull: Twin Novellas more books like this by Will Self add to wishlist Combining a wild imagination, a bizarre sense of humor, and a masterful command of language, Self is the newest young literary star to appear out of England. Cock and Bull tells of a world where sexual characteristics are switched on a nightmare ride where gender isn't so much bent as snapped in two. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Becoming Drusilla: One Life, Two Friends, Three Genders more books like this by Richard Beard add to wishlist For years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew. They would spend a few days walking, camping, cycling, canoing - outdoor, manly fun - before returning to everyday life: wives, children, jobs. Richard was writing novels. Drew was working in the engine-room of cross-channel passenger ferries. Then one year ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.70! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism more books like this by Pat Califia, Patrick Califia-Rice add to wishlist An inquiry into the history of transsexuality and transgenderism from mid-century, with attention paid to the medical community and "sex reassignment," as well as to changing responses within the transgendered community. Worth noting are Califia's well-chosen excerpts from autobiographical writings of transgendered people. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $83.95!
16 view cover	S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes more books like this by Claudine Griggs add to wishlist Through an examination of the experience of transsexuals, this book enhances understanding of how gender can and does function in powerful, complex and subtle ways. The author, who has herself been surgically reassigned, has conducted extensive interviews with transsexuals from many walks of life. Her personal experiences, which inform this book, ... see all copies from $6.20! new only from $9.97! \| SVS
17 view cover	Dangerous Games: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer on Death Row Who Changed His Sex and Won Her Freedom more books like this by Robert L Bentley add to wishlist The incredible story of Leslie Douglas Ashley/Leslie Elaine Perez, as a man convicted of murder and facing execution, and as a woman, now a gay rights advocate, battling AIDS and injustice. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.57! \| first editions
18 view cover	Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen more books like this by Richard F Docter add to wishlist A fascinating biography of the highly-publicized male-to-female sex change recipient, Christine Jorgensen, and the impact she had on changing attitudes toward gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. see all copies from $9.65! new only from $18.50! \| SVS
19 view cover	He's My Daughter: A Mother's Journey to Acceptance more books like this by Lynda Langley add to wishlist A shocking phone call from their distraught daughter-in-law was how Lynda and Richard Langley learnt that their son had started his transition from a man to a woman. The mad rush to their son's hospital bedside, anguish and fear for his physical health, shock from the nature of his injury, and the dread of the challenges to be faced in the coming ... see all copies from $16.36! new only from $17.18!
20 view cover	Transsexuals: Candid Answers to Private Questions more books like this by Gerald Ramsey, Ph.D. add to wishlist The transsexual process is the consistent pursuit of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and sexual wholeness, accomplished at enormous personal cost. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society more books like this by Holly Devor add to wishlist Very little is known about female-to-male transsexuals. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as transsexual? What do they do about it? How do their families cope? Who loves them? What does it mean for the rest of us? "FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society" answers these questions and more. It provides a detailed, compassionate, ... see all copies from $29.69! new only from $42.15! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/ Transexual Client: A Comprehensive Guide more books like this by Richard K Adler, Sandy Hirsch, Michelle Mordaunt add to wishlist This is the first resource for speech-language pathologists and voice clinicians who assist transgender/transsexual patients in developing authentic voices, language, movement and behaviors congruous with their gender identification. This text guides clinicians who work with the transgender/transsexual population in designing and administering a ... see all copies from $102.85! new only from $102.85! \| SVS
23 view cover	Begotten or Made more books like this by Oliver O'Donovan add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! new only from $30.00! \| SVS
24	My Story more books like this by Caroline Cossey add to wishlist In 1989 Caroline Cossey, who was born male, made an appeal to the European Commission of Human Rights. She was fighting for the legal right to marry as a woman. The author tells of her childhood in Norfolk, the operations that liberated her sexually and her persecution by the tabloid press. see all copies from $13.95! new only from $84.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Transvestites & Transsexuals: Mixed Views more books like this by Deborah Heller Feinbloom add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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