Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Featured Items

Begin researching transgender people with these selections.

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

Author

C. Riley Snorton

Description

Covers the mid-19th century to the present.

Year

2017

Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

Author

Arlene Stein

Description

Follows four young individuals preparing for surgery for a year and includes interviews with other transgender people, their families and friends, medical professionals, and activists.

Year

2018

Trans-Harming Care: Comparing the Experiences of Latin American, Caribbean, and Dutch Transwomen with the Dutch Healthcare System

Author

Lene Swetzer

Description

Year

2016

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Author

Rosalind Rosenberg

Description

Year

2017

True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Author

Emily Skidmore

Description

Focuses on 18 trans men in the United States between 1876 and 1936.

Year

2017

TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World

Editor

Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, and Margherita Facella

Description

Focuses on the Mediterranean region.

Year

2017

Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment

Author

Aren Z. Aizura

Description

Covers memoirs by transgender people, depictions of gender identity in documentaries, representations of gender-focused migration, medical travel, health care systems, global labor systems, and gender reassignment surgery in Thailand.

Year

2018

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

Author

Sarah McBride

Description

Year

2018

Histories of the Transgender Child

Author

Julian Gill-Peterson

Description

Year

2018