Drag King Dreams
A Novel
Leslie Feinberg
£ 10.99
Stone Butch Blues author Leslie Feinberg's long-awaited novel about love and struggle in New York City's East Village. Drag King Dreams takes us on an unforgettable new gender journey. Max Rabinowitz, a bouncer in an East Village drag club, has become a loner, sleepwalking through post-9/11 Manhattan. But as life closes in, a circle of co-workers and friends help awaken Max's old activist spirit. Feinberg is the recipient of the American Library Association's Lesbian and Gay Book Award, the Lambda Award and the Firecraker Alternative Book Award.
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"In this wonderful new novel Leslie Feinberg shows us where we live today." - E. Lynn Harris
"Through Feinberg's visually stimulating writing, Drag King Dreams is an incredibly truthful, spirit-emanating and poignant journey of self love and self truth - the truth of being one self no matter what society considers 'right' or 'wrong.'" - Diyaa [Dred], Gender Illusionist.
Sexual Metamorphosis
An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
Jonathan Ames [Editor]
£ 8.99
"But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman." -Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, R.V.Krafft-Ebing
At the time the passage above was written, people who felt trapped in the wrong gender automatically became case studies. Today they become the men and women they always felt they were. Transsexuals test our notions of what it is to be male or female and, more provocatively, what it means to be one self as opposed to another.
In Sexual Metamorphosis, Ames presents the personal narrative of sixteen gender pioneers. Here is Christine Jorgensen, the first celebrity transsexual, greeting thousands of well-wishers from the stage of Madison Square Garden. Here is Caroline Cossey, former model and Bond girl, being outed in the tabloids. Here is novelist and English professor Jennifer Boylan discussing her impending transformation with her heart-broken spouse and supportive yet confused colleagues. The result is a fascinating and compulsively readable book, filled with anguish, introspection, and courage.
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Unzipping Gender
Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture
Charlotte Suthrell
£ 16.99
How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as 'deviant,' while they are accepted in other societies? Transvestism, and its cultural practice, is a useful lens through which we can view models of sex, gender and sexuality. Drawing on fieldwork this book offers a cross-cultural examination of transvestites in Britian and the Hijras of India. The author explores the issues of sex and gender, the significance of dress and the roles that emotion, mythology, imagery and belief systems play in influencing ideas of gender in different cultures.
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Hello Cruel World
101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws
Kate Bornstein
£
9.99
Celebrated transgender trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Kate bravely shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive. Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their heartss harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don't be mean." It is this principle that guides a life-changing and self-validating journey. Tenderly intimate and unapologically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package.
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'How lucky we are to have such a clear and intelligent writer who has had profoundly personal experiences with different identities, the subject of the first-rate book.' Kurt Vonnegut
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The Lazy Crossdresser
Charles Anders
£ 9.99
Charles Anders, a writer and crossdresser of many years' experience, gives you the skills and confidence you need to crossdress as much - or as little - as you want! Unlike crossdressing manuals that insist on nothing less than perfect passable femininity, this book gives you the freedom to experiment according you your own style and on your own terms. You'll learn how to achieve the results you desire with: make-up (the televangelist's finger test), body image (fat is also feminine tissue), underwear (Mr Sad is Mr Happy upside down), fashion (yuppie riot grrl Barbie) and much much more. Informative, inspiring and written with flair and good humor. To order call 0207 278 7654.
Also check out the excellent Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success by Veronica Vera, retailing at £8.99
Veronica Vera, creator and founder of the world's first cross-dressing academy, knows that a host of goods and services for the girl with something extra are just a mouse click away. Miss Vera has done all the leg work, combing the Internet for irrestible fun and fashions, friendly social groups, and time-tested beauty tips for cross-dressers and trannies of every stripe. From tips on hair removal to the best kind of open-nipple bullet bra, this comprehensive book is a great reference guide and brilliantly playful. To order call 0207 278 7654.
Sex Works
Del LaGrace Volcano
£ 17.99
Legendary alternative photographer and gender artist Del LaGrace Volcano returns with a photographic anthology exploring the world of LGBT sexual encounters. Del LaGrace Volcano documents queer and transgender sex practices in this amazing collection of images. The result of years of active participation in - and documentation of - the dyke, queer, trans and intersexual scenes in around London and San Francisco, "Sex Works" is a colourful, provocative and explicitly revealing exploration of trans-queer boundaries.
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Female Masculinity
Judith Halberstam
£ 17.50
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years; from nineteenth century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research she uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender catergories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She draws from the work of Anne Lister and Radclyffe Hall in a exploration of the foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She also considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles. She further considers issues of 'transgender dykes' and 'female-to-male transsexuals' and tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and the phenomenon of male impersonators. This is a facinating, highly intelligent and perceptive yet accessible piece of probing scholarship, strengthened by nearly fourty photographs and stills. To order call 0207 278 7654.
Queer Theory, Gender theory
- an instant primer
Riki Wilchins
£ 10.99
In this one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the work of postmodern sex and gender thorist, internationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins clearly explains the key ideas that have shaped contemporary sex and gender studies. Using straightforward prose and concrete examples from LGBT politics-as well as her own life-Wilchins makes thinkers like Derrida, Focault, and Judith Butler easily accessible to students, activists, and others who are interested in some of the most compelling and divisive issues of the last 100 years.
" Riki Wilchins is the Emma Goldman of teh movement for gender rights. Anyone interested in the ontology of gender and the future of queer politics will find this an enlightening and invaluable book." Patrick Califia To order call 0207 278 7654.
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Becoming A Visable Man
Jamison Green
£ 17.50
In this artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender, leading transsexual activist Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male trans experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice to the realities of surgical sex reassignment. Brimming with frank and often poignant recollections of Green's own experiences- including his childhood struggles with identity and his years as a lesbian parent prior to his sex-reassignment- the book examines transsexualism as a human condition that some people feel compelled to make in order to manage their gender variance. To order call 0207 278 7654.
The Drag Queen Anthology
- The Absolutely Fabulous but flawlessy customary world of female impersonators
Ed.Steven P. Schacht with Lisa Underwood
£ 16.99
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutelty Fabulous but flawlessly customary world of female impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience that knows the truth but celebrates the illusion.
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Undoing Gender
Judith Butler
£ 19.99
This book constitutes Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern- and fail to govern- gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognisable personhood. She writes about the "new gender politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.
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Leather Daddy and the Femme
Carol Queen
£ 10.99
From dark alleys to tastefully-appointed dungeons, from hotel penthouses to tranny bars, Miranda/ Randy (when she is a boi) explores and embraces her desires - none of them fenced in by anyone else's idea of sex, gender, and/or sexual orientation. With Jack, her leather daddy, and other occupants of San Francisco's sexual underground, she creates her own alternative vision of family values. Highly erotic and with big heart Carol Queen has made this into a schoolbook of queer awareness where we can follow Miranda/Randy on all her adventures. The playfulness is there and the desire to take risks in a safe environment with people she trusts, but strongest in the book is the love between Miranda and Jack and the family they create. It is a true love story, with a lot of sex. To order call 0207 278 7654.
GTW verdict: A must read for everyone who is curious and adventurous and like Club Wotever!
She's not there
- A life in two genders
Jennifer Finney Boylan
with an afterword by Richard Russo
£
16.99
She's not there is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story. Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the remarkable territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. To order call 0207 278 7654.
The Sexual Rainbow
Olive Skene Johnson, Ph.D
£ 10.99
In this fascinating and highly accessible book, Olive Skene Johnson describes the myriad factors that shape our sexuality. Drawing on the scientific findings of experts past and present, plus psychological quizzes and anecdotes from her clinical and personal experience, Johnson explores questions such as: Is sexual diversity new? Why do men and women think differently? What happens to people born with the genitals of both sexes? Why do some paople insist on changing their gender? How do genes, hormones and society affect our sexuality? And within this book Johnson gives us some of the answers. To order call 0207 278 7654.
Sex Changes - Transgender Politics
Patrick Califia, (2nd ed)
£
12.99
Sex Changes combines Califia's meticulously researched contemporary history of transsexuality with his trademark fearless criticism of mainstream sex culture. Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines the lives of early transgender pioneers and contemporary transgender activists. To order call 0207 278 7654.
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