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This section has books discussing gender issues and theory - if you're studying any courses including gender studies, you might find some of the books listed below useful resources. There are also many books specifically concerning Transgender Identity, theory and politics.

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	All Books by Suzanne J. Kessler - Author of : Lessons from the Intersexed Paperback - 224 pages (August 1998) Rutgers University Press; ISBN: 0813525306 "TransGender Studies/Theory; Focusing on intersexuality - having physical gender markers that are neither female or male - the author examines the social institutions that are mobilized to maintain the two seemingly objective sexual categories. She argues that we need to re-think the meaning of gender, genitals and sexuality." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna - Authors of : Gender : An Ethnomethodological Approach Paperback - 233 pages Reprint edition (July 1985) University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226432068 "TransGender Studies/Theory; Book of Scientific & Social Theory on Gender" Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Kate More and Stephen Whittle - Editors of : Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual at the Fin De Siecle Paperback (April 2000) Cassette College Audio; ISBN: 0304337765 "TransGender Studies/Theory; An interdisciplinary work bringing together an international group of transgender writers, this text provides a collection of essays that are central to both academia and activism. Based on academic and "street" experiences, the book addresses the practical issues faced in changing the world view of gender while forcing theory a step forward from limitations of "queer", feminism and postmodernism. In a wide-ranging set of contributions, it addresses our engendered places now and what we can aim for in the future. It evaluates the mechanism we can use to galvanize both the micro theories of gender as a personal experience of oppression and the macro theories of gender as a site of social regulation. The collection aims to take identity politics and reclaim identity for the "self"." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Joan Nestle, Riki Anne Wilchins and Clare Howell - Authors of : Genderqueer : Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary Paperback - 320 pages (August 2002) Alyson Pubns; ISBN: 1555837301 "TransGender Studies/Theory; 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 around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Jay Prosser - Author of : Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality Paperback - 288 pages 0 edition (May 15, 1998) Columbia Univ Pr; ISBN: 0231109350 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and -- in flesh and head -- to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Sex change is a plot -- and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. In reading the transssexual plot through transsexuals' own recounting, Prosser not only gives us a new and more accurate rendition of transsexuality. His book suggests transsexuality, with its extraordinary conjunctions of body and narrative, as an identity story that transitions across the body/language divide that currently stalls poststructuralist thought. The form and approach of Second Skins works to cross other important and parallel divides. In addition to analyzing transsexual textual accounts, the book includes some 30 photographic portraits of transsexuals -- poignant attempts by transsexuals to present themselves unmediated to the world except by the camera. And the author does not shy from exposure himself. Interjecting the personal into his theoretical discussion and close textual work throughout the book, Prosser reads and writes his own body, his purpose in that stylistic crossing to stake out transsexuality -- and hence this very book -- as his own body's narrative." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Matthew Rottnek - Editor of : Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood Paperback - 344 pages (May 1999) New York University Press; ISBN: 0814774849 "TransGender Studies/Theory; What is the difference between a child being called a sissy in the school playground and being labeled with a disorder in a psychiatric hospital? Combining theory and personal narrative, this volume examines the meaning of the "normal" that pervades the literature on GID (gender-identity disorder of childhood) and investigates the theoretical underpinnings of the diagnosis. It considers how the stigma of illness influences a child's development and what homosexual childhood, freed from the constraints of conventionally acceptable gender expression, might look like." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Peggy J. Rudd - Author of : Who's Really from Venus? : The Tale of Two Genders Paperback - 170 pages 1 edition (June 1998) Pm Pub; ISBN: 0962676241 "TransGender Studies/Theory; Who's Really from Venus? The Tale of Two Genders by Peggy J. Rudd, Ed.D is her fourth and most important book written on the ever emerging topic of men and women who cross gender lines established by our society. There are millions of people who are seeking information on how to find a balance between masculinity and femininity. Dr. Rudd's first book, My Husband Wears My Clothes, has become a worldwide best seller. Who's Really from Venus? can benefit not only those people in the transgender community but also mainstream America and Planet Earth." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada:
	All Books by Kim Elizabeth Stuart - Author of : The Uninvited Dilemma : A Question of Gender Paperback - 173 pages Revised edition (December 1991) Metamorphous Press; ISBN: 1555520138 "TransGender Studies/Theory; "The Uninvited Dilemma" is different from the autobiographies and clinical studies on transsexuality. It represents two years of research involving carefully structured, in-depth personal interviews with seventy-five transsexuals, consultations with members of the medical and mental health communities, and conversations with loved ones of transsexuals. This book will give you an understanding of the true nature of transsexuality." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:
	All Books by Stephen Whittle - Author of : The Transgender Debate Paperback - 64 pages (May 1, 2001) Garnet Pub Ltd; ISBN: 1902932161 *~~ Featured Book Review ~~* "Transgender has become a cultural obsession. From the high camp of Rue Paul to the working class transsexual icon, Hayley of Coronation Street, it pervades our lives. Yet for many it remains a freakish interest on the sidelines. For transsexual and transgender people, though, it is a reality bound up in complexities, legal contradictions, family discord, and a desperate need to explain what it means to be a man or a woman, or neither, or both. Addressing the historical, social, legal and medical issues surrounding this new community, this book throws a light onto the complex issues, clarifying them in a way that all those who think they know what they mean, will be called to question the certainties that gender roles are no longer about." Click to buy this book in USA, UK:
	All Books by Riki Anne Wilchins - Author of : Read My Lips : Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender Paperback - 288 pages (September 1997) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563410907 "TransGender Studies/Theory; Over the course of the past decade transgender politics have become the cutting edge of sexual liberation. While the sexual and political freedom of homosexuals has yet to be fully secured, questions of who is sleeping with whom pale in the face of the battle by transgender activists to dismantle the idea of what it means to be a man or a woman. Riki Anne Wilchins's Read My Lips is a passionate, witty, and extraordinarily intelligent look at how society not only creates men and women--ignoring the fluidity of maleness and femaleness in most people--but also explains how those categories generate crisis for most individuals. It is impossible to read Wilchins's ideas and not be provoked in fundamental and mysterious ways." Click to buy this book in USA, Canada, UK:

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