Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a bluecollar town in the 1950's, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding to pass as a …
The masculinity studies reader
by Savran, David, Adams, Rachel
fromKeyworks in cultural studies
From the Publisher: Transgender History covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today. From the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following "World War II to trans radicalism and social change in the '60s and '70s to the gender is…
We're here. We're queer. We're fat.This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world.Celebrating fat and queer bodies and lives…
Travesti: sex, gender, and culture among Brazilian transgen…
by Kulick, Don
fromWorlds of desire