CDS Publications Catalogue Off-site company has an extensive catalogue of excellent transgender publications.
Ordering Information for the books listed here
ACCOUNTING FOR TRANSSEXUALISM AND TRANSHOMOSEXUALITY; Tully, Brian; $27.50; This book is the result of a major study carried out at Britain's leading Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross Hospital, London. This systematic study follows 204 transsexual subjects, and reviews the literature in the gender reassignment field. The author proposes several ways apart from complete gender reassignment of helping people finds ways to resolve their gender identity problems.
AMAZONS AND MILITARY MAIDS: WOMEN WHO DRESSED AS MEN ...; Wheelwright, Julie; $11.95; Drawing on memoirs, letters, and diaries, this book exposes the hidden history of women who chose to live, work, and love as men. Reveals for the first time a long, popular tradition in Western culture, tracing these women from the height of their popularity in the 1700's to their re-emergence as a nation's pride and joy during the first World War.
ART OF EXPLORING YOUR FEMININE NATURE; Urania, Sophia and J.; $16.95; An inspiring and almost spiritual guide for the male cross-dresser and his female mate. It is designed to bring out the female element in both, so that each can better understand the other. There is a resource chapter that is invaluable.
BARBETTE; Cocteau, Jean & Man Ray; $17.95; (no description available)
CARMEN: MY LIFE; Martin, Paul; $15.95; (no description available)
CAVALRY MAIDEN: JOURNALS OF A RUSSIAN OFFICER IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS; Durova, Nadezhda; $11.95; ""I have heard,' said the Tsarx"that you are not a man. Is that true?'" In December 1807, Alexander I granted a commission to Nadezhda Durova who, in male guise, served nearly ten years in the Russian light cavalry during the Napoleonic wars. These selections of her military journals, translated, introduced, and annotated by Mary Fleming Zirin, are a lively account of Russian life on and off the battlefield in the Alexdrine era. A unique and gripping contribution to the literature of female experience.
CONUNDRUM: AN EXTRAORDINARY MARRATIVE OF TRANSSEXUALISM; Morris, Jan; $8.95; One of the most renowned historians and travel writers of our time describes her change of sexual identity from male to female.
CROSS AND THE CROSSDRESSER; S., Vanessa; $10.00; Explores the behavioral phenomenon that has existed for thousands of years and is even mentioned in the Bible. The author, a crossdresser, wrestled with his religion and crossdressing, and began a search for answers and a reconciliation with faith in God. This book shares those answers. Many references to Biblical and theological source texts are provided to the reader.
CROSS DRESSING, SEX, & GENDER; Bullough, Vern and Bonnie Bullough; $16.95; Surveys cross dressing and gender impersonation throughout history in a variety of cultures. Examines the medical, biological, psychological, and sociological findings that have been presented in modern scientific literature. Offers the authors' results of research into contemporary gender issues, and the continuing search for explanations.
DANGEROUS GAMES; Bentley, Robert; $19.95; The true story of a convicted murderer on death row who changed his sex and won her freedom. This is the story of Leslie Douglas Ashley/Leslie Elaine Perez, who received an 11th hour reprieve on death row, had his conviction overturned, and then, with his mothers money, had a sex change and went on to become and AIDS activist for ACT-UP/ Houston. This is her incredible story.
FROM FEMALE TO MALE: THE LIFE OF JACK BEE GARLAND; Sullivan, Louis; $8.95; Outstanding work about a 19th Century FTM who led a most interesting and complicated life.
FROM MASCULINE TO FEMININE...AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN; Stevens, Jennifer Anne; $19.95; Written by a practicing "T," this is a practical guide for transvestites, crossdressers, transgenderists, transsexuals, and others who choose to develop a more feminine image.
GENDER OUTLAW: ON MEN, WOMEN AND THE REST OF US; Bornstein, Kate; $23.00; The work of a woman who has been through some changes, a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer, actress and performance artist. In this disarming account of her life and genders, Bornstein covers the mechanics of her surgery, as well as everything you've always wanted to know about gender.
HORSEXE: ESSAYS ON TRANSSEXUALITY; Millot, Catherine; $10.00; This essay on transsexuality has a wide range of focus. AS well as interviewing both male and female transsexuals, the author did historical research on androgeny and castration.
HOSANNA; Tremblay, Michel; $11.95; A transvestite dressed as Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra returns from a costume party at which everyone appears as Cleopatra. Her illusions of herself are shattered.
LES ESPIONNES; Rheims, Bettina; $14.95; A collection of photos of women who used to be men.
LOW LIFE ON HIGH HEELS: THE HOLLY WOODLAWN STORY; Woodlawn, Holly and Jeff Copeland; $12.00; A walk on the wild side with Andy Warhol's last superstar. A madcap romp through the underground of the 60's and 70's. The story of a 15 year old Miami boy who ran away from home to live in Oz and found fame in Warhol's film Trash.
M. BUTTERFLY; Hwang, David Henry; $9.00; Rene Galimard, a diplomat, is held prisoner by the French government because of his involvement in espionage. His crime was falling prey to illusion and love. His love was Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese diva, who was in reality a spy and a man. Their love affair lasted 20 years, from the seduction to the betrayal. A Tony Award winner. Based on a true story.
MAN'S TALE; Pepper, John; $5.95; Award winning writer John Pepper tells how he came to unearth his feminine self and gives an account of the struggle for `Men's Lib' and freedom from soul-destroying conventional masculinity.
MORGAN MYSTIQUE: MORGAN HOLLIDAY'S GUIDE TO LIVING...; Holliday, Morgan and Peter Hawkins; $19.95; A complete guide to make up, style, fashion and carriage for the transvestite, as well as the drag queen, Holliday's philosophy of life is "...that there be no bad drag queen."
MOTHER CAMP: FEMALE IMPERSONATORS IN AMERICA; Newton, Esther; $9.95; The product of two years of field research that is a lively, first-hand account of the distinctions drag queens make between one another as performers, the kinds of acts they put together, and the symbolic geography of male and female styles.MY STORY; Cossey, Caroline; $12.95; Also known as the international fashion model Tula, this is a frank and uninhibited autobiography of a famous British transsexual model. Twice her career, and once her marriage, has been ruined by exposes in the British tabloids. Written with honesty and humor.
NINE LIVES; Rutherford, Erica; $12.95; For fifty years, internationally respected artist Rutherford, who was born a male, struggled with the conviction that she was born the wrong gender. At the age of fifty, she fina lly decided to live as a woman. This is the story of her constant search to embrace change and the intensity of experience.
OTHER SIDE; Goldin, Nan; $39.95; A haunting collection of intimate portraits of transvestites and transsexuals, these photos are a culmination of more than two decades of passionate observation. Here Goldin captures them in the privacy of their fringe universe. The photos capture the poignant reality of this at once radical and natural transcendence of strict male and female gender stereotypes.
QUEENS, THE; Alpert, George; $5.95; "The nine sequences which comprise George Alpert's photographic essay capture the transformation of ten such men into sometimes bizarre, sometimes hauntingly beautiful women. "Theirs is a world of make-up and wigs, of glitter and fashion, of gay clubs and well-cruised streets." from the cover
SOCIAL TEXT: SEX WORKERS AND SEX WORK; McClintock, Anne; $8.00; Many voices, including both client and sex worker, give an insider's view of the commercial sex industry. In an unusual essay accompanied by photos of his cross-gender transformation, transvestite Robert/Stella explores the intricate desires and memories that drive him to engage in S/M scenarios and cross-dressing.
TRADITION OF FEMALE TRANSVESTISM IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE; Dekker, Rudolf M. & Lotte C. van de Pol; $29.95; (no description available)
TRANSFORMATIONS: CROSSDRESSERS & THOSE WHO LOVE THEM; Allen, Mariette Pathy; $24.95; Photo essay book. A must have for any collection of transgender works.
TRANSGENDER LIBERATION: A MOVEMENT WHOSE TIME HAS COME; Feinberg, Leslie; $2.50; A Marxist view of when and why transgender oppression arose. This pamphlet is an attempt to trace the historic rise of an oppression that, as yet, has no commonly agreed name: oppression of people who defy the "man"-made boundaries of gender.
TRANSSEXUAL EMPIRE: THE MAKING OF THE SHE-MALE; Raymond, Janice G.; $17.95; Reissued with a new introduction on transgender, this groundbreaking work of 15 years ago is still one of the premier works on this issue. This book challenged the medical psychiatric definition of transsexualism as a disease, and sex conversion hormones and surgery as the cure.
TRANSSEXUAL'S SURVIVAL GUIDE; Stringer, JoAnn Altman; $15.00; The author, a post-op TS and married woman, covers everything the therapist didn't tell you and some. Counseling, economics, networking a new social life, seeking employment, and dealing with friends and family. Comprehensive yet general enough for both the M-t-F and F-t-M transsexual.
TRANSSEXUAL'S SURVIVAL GUIDE II; Stringer, JoAnn Altman; $10.00; The follow up guide to Transition and Beyond for family, friends and employers.
TRANSVESTITES: THE EROTIC DRIVE TO CROSS-DRESS; Hirschfeld, Magnus; $37.95; This classic gender study, first published in 1910 explores all the aspects of transvestism from social, physical and emotional standpoints.
UNINVITED DILEMMA; Stuart, Kim Elizabeth; $12.95; A clear-headed discussion of Transexualism, cross-dressing, gender roles, psychology of transexualism and socialization of transsexuals.
UNINVITED DILEMMA: A RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT; Stuart, Kim Elizabeth; $14.95; The actual research interviews and questionnaires used to create the book Uninvited Dilemma.
VESTED INTERESTS: CROSS-DRESSING AND CULTURAL ANXIETY; Garber, Marjorie; $17.50; Beginning with the claim there can be no culture without the transvestite, Garber examines the nature and importance of cross-dressing in this revolutionary and wide ranging examination from Shakespeare and Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde and Peter Pan, from transsexual surgery and transvestite sororities to Madonna and Flip Wilson to Valentino and Elvis.
BOOKS ON TRANSGENDERISTS AND TRANSGENDERISM (Fiction)
ANARCOMA; Nazario; $9.95; The adventures of a transvestite sleuth in the Gay Ghetto of Barcelona.
AS IF OVERNIGHT; Dunne, Gary; $7.00; A novella in pamphlet form by the author of the dryly, humorous IF BLOOD SHOULD STAIN THE LINO. A story of what happens to the world of glamour transvestites after the arrival of AIDS.
BOOK OF BILLY; Birman, David; $10.00; Billy Blue is a fighter and a survivor. Wherever he goes, from sleazy downtown bars to snooty law schools, his saving grace is his down-home southern charm. But just below the surface lurks a mighty southern rage.
EYE OF THE EVERLASTING ANGEL; Virtue, Noel; $28.00; Toby Todd, abandoned by his parents at sixteen, tries his luck in London where he has a chance encounter on Hampstead Heath that leads to a love affair with the handsome Anthony.Quirky humor pervades this English novel which introduces the difficult subject of transvestism.
IMPERSONATOR; Hammond, Diana; $5.99; The Impersonator "can be anything you want him to be." This is the story of one man's ability to become anything his lovers' want him to be. That is until he grows bored of them. The Impersonator has a long history of shattered lives all of whom are victims of his gamesmanship.
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL; Berendt, John; $23.00; Follows the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case in Savannah Georgia. Peopled with an eclectic cast of characters; a turbulent young redneck gigolo; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic antiques dealer; the aging Southern belle, and sundry other Southernerss who revel in the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.
PASSION OF NEW EVE; Carter, Angela; $13.00; New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert where a many breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into new Eve. This is the story of how Eve learns to be a woman first at the hands of the brutal Zero then through the gentle touch of Tristessa.
SACRED COUNTRY; Tremain, Rose; $21.00; In a snowy Suffolk field, the Ward family stands close together, offering their prayers for King George's passage to heaven. At this moment, Mary Ward, age six, realizes with perfect clarity and conviction that she is a boy, not a girl, and that it is her destiny to be a man. Over the next three decades we watch as she pursues this elusive identity.
SHAMAN; Fox, Hugh; $10.95; The spiritual and metaphysical musing of a young man trouble by his masculinity who seeks out the world of the transvestite.
STEEL BEACH; Varley, John; $5.99; Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like fish cast on artificial shores. Their home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored with their existence and so is the computer that monitors them. The lead character is a guy who wants to spend time as a woman. Deals with transgender and definition of sex roles.
STONE BUTCH BLUES; Feinberg, Leslie; $9.95; Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. This book tells of her coming to terms with the tempest of who she is. Growing up differently, coming out as butch in the bars and the feminist 60's, taking hormones and passing as a man to get a job in the 70's, she must ultimately deal with her transgender when her hormone pills wear off and she is brought full circle in her identity.
TO BE A WOMAN; McClain, Jerry/Jerri; $15.95; The story of how one man's search for the feminine side of his personality led him to a completely new world, the world of women. "I always wanted to be a womanx" those opening words of this new book set the scene for one of the most unusual stories ever told.
Bookstores. For ord ering information, send e-mail to:lambdarising@his.com
This compilation and the descriptions included herein are copyright 1994 by Lambda Rising, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Permission to reprint by electronic means is hereby granted providing the file is posted in its entirety (including this notice).
LAMBDA RISING BOOKSTORES Every Gay & Lesbian Book in Print - Videos, Music, & Gifts, Too! FREE Catalog by Mail - Out- of-Print Book Search Service E-mail address:lambdarising@his.com
All listed titles (and, in fact, virtually every gay and lesbian book in print) can be ordered from Lambda Rising