Annotated
Bibliography

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Trans-
gendered

              Transgendered

Anne Bolin, In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage, Berger & Garvey, 1988.

Richard F. Doctor, Transvestites and Transsexuals: Towards a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior,
Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1988.
A basic study that attempts to map out a cross-gendered and cross- dressing social behaviors.

Leslie Feinberg, Transgendered Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, Boston,
Beacon Press, 1996.
Feinberg's book is a wonderful mixture of autobiography and historical examination of transgendered
outlaws. I came out convinced of the possibility of more than two genders.

Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety, New York, Routledge,
Chapman and Hall, 1992.
Excellent cultural study of cross-dressing, ranging from transvestism to transsexualism

Bernice L. Hausman, Changing Sex: Transexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender, Durham,
Duke University Press, 1995.
Hausman deconstructs current notions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender identity by showing
how medical technology has made the emergence of new identities possible.

Dave King, The Transvestite and the Transsexual: Public Categories and Private Identities, Avebury,
1993.
King embarks upon a sociological analysis of the meanings attributed to transvestism and
transsexuality.

Victoria Kolakowski, "The Concubine and the Eunuch: Queering Up the Breeder's Bible, in Our
Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship, ed. by Robert E. Goss & Amy Adams Squires
Strongheart, Haworth Press, 1997.
Kolakowski provides a transgendered reading of the scriptures, reclaiming a vision of hope for
transsexuals and all gender benders.

Frank Lewins, Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male to Female Transsexuas, Paul &
Company, 1995.
Lewins challenges current medical and feminist critique of transsexualism. He argues for a widening
psychosexual identities.

Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender Nation, Bowling Green State University, 1994.
This book examines the change of male-to-female transsexuals from a sociological and sociopolitial
perspective.

Richard F. Docter, Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theoy of Cross Gender Behavior,
New York, The Plenum Press, 1988.
Docter presents ten years of research on the issues of transvestism and transsexualism.
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