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1	Invisible Monsters more books like this by Chuck Palahniuk add to wishlist She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. see all copies from $3.23! new only from $8.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	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
3	Stone Butch Blues more books like this by Leslie Feinberg add to wishlist This compelling first novel follows the sexual travails of lesbian Jess Goldberg in a fine account of coming to terms with the complexities of a transgendered existence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us more books like this by Kate Bornstein add to wishlist Gender has been described as the battleground for the 90s. As we watch the emergence of 'gender-bending' in popular culture, the lines are being drawn and sides taken up. Somewhere above both sides stands Kate Bornstein, with a unique, funny and lucid voice. Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes - a former ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Secret Society more books like this by Miasha add to wishlist This stellar debut is a compulsively readable tale of a 19-year-old Philly girl with an unbelievable secret. "Miasha writes with the fatal stroke of a butcher knife."--Omar Tyree, author of the "Flyy Girl" trilogy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
6	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
7	Luna more books like this by Julie Anne Peters add to wishlist High school sophomore Regan grapples with the tensions stemming from her older brother Liam's longing to change genders and become Luna, a glamorous female. Supportive Regan has always been Liam's confidant and helped him whenever she could, including buying women's lingerie for him to wear in the privacy of their house. Now Liam gets bolder, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.84! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India more books like this by Serena Nanda add to wishlist This book should be of interest to undergraduate courses in anthropology. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $46.53! \| first editions \| SVS
9	She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders more books like this by Jennifer Finney Boylan add to wishlist A professor at Colby College writes humorously about her transformation from a man (James) to a woman (Jennifer). The book includes an afterword by the author's friend, the novelist Richard Russo. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	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 $8.94! new only from $11.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Normal: Transsexual Ceos, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude more books like this by Amy Bloom add to wishlist The NBCC and NBA fiction finalist explores the complexities of gender and human nature through portraits of people living in what might be considered abnormal circumstances--transsexuals, crossdressers, and others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary more books like this by Joan Nestle (Editor), Clare Howell (Editor), Riki Anne Wilchins add to wishlist Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
13 view cover	Convict's Candy more books like this by Damon "Amin" Meadows, Jason Poole add to wishlist CONVICT'S CANDY is based on a teen-aged, pre-op transsexual named Candy, who gets arrested and sent to federal prison exactly one week before her scheduled sex-change operation. Still having male organs, Candy is housed with strong, masculine, handsome male inmates who haven't been around or touched a woman in years. Candy soon finds herself being ... see all copies from $6.03! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy more books like this by Thomas Beatie add to wishlist Thomas Beatie electrified the world in April 2008 with his announcement that he was seven months pregnant. He recounted his amazing story on The Oprah Winfrey Show, drawing her single largest TV audience of the year. While the news reached headlines across the globe, it is only one chapter in a fascinating saga. Labor of Love chronicles Thomas ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity more books like this by Julia Serano add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $9.13! new only from $9.13! \| SVS
16 view cover	Bye-Bye, Black Sheep more books like this by Ayelet Gilbert Waldman add to wishlist The newest arrival in this bestselling and wickedly funny mystery series finds the fledgling detective agency owned by Juliet and Al flying high. The intrepid detectives think they have seen it all in their garage-turned-office, but they're about to realize they ain't seen nothing yet! see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Cotton more books like this by Christopher P Wilson add to wishlist Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Parrotfish more books like this by Ellen Wittlinger add to wishlist Last week I cut my hair, bought some boys' clothes and shoes, wrapped a large ACE bandage around my chest to flatten my fortunately-not-large breasts, and began looking for a new name. Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decides to become Grady, a guy. While coming out as ... see all copies from $7.87! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
19 view cover	Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs more books like this by Jonathan Ames (Editor) add to wishlist This collection, which draws on published memoirs by transsexuals, includes excerpts from what is generally considered the groundbreaking memoir by Christine Jorgensen, as well as excerpts from Jan Morris's CONUNDRUM and SECOND SERVE by tennis pro Renee Richards. It also includes an 1886 passage from Krafft-Ebing, one from novelist Jennifer Finney ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience more books like this by Matt Kailey add to wishlist The author uses humor and humility to explain his journey toward accepting himself as neither a woman nor someone born male, sharing advice with those who may be questioning their gender while also offering valuable insights to the family and friends of those who have started a transsexual transition. see all copies from $5.29! new only from $9.35! \| SVS
21 view cover	Becoming a Visible Man more books like this by Jamison Green add to wishlist Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $15.45! \| SVS
22 view cover	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
23 view cover	Jewelry Talks: A Novel Thesis more books like this by Richard Klein add to wishlist An elderly dying man who has always lived as a woman bequeaths his jewelry collection to his grandniece, to whom he addresses this story of his life--a life full of wild adventures, celebrity friends, and--most of all--an obsession with jewelry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	What Becomes You more books like this by Aaron Raz Link, Hilda Raz add to wishlist "Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the co-author of "What Becomes You", who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. As he transforms from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	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 $4.19! new only from $18.95! \| signed copies \| first editions

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