Books like How Sex Changed by Joanne J. Meyerowitz

Gender Outlaw is a memoir and manifesto by trans woman Kate Bornstein that combines coming‑of‑age narrative with outspoken essays on gender identity, sexuality and hormone therapy.

Gender Outlaws compiles essays and writings by contemporary trans and gender‑queer thinkers, exploring identity, hormone therapy, transition, and sexuality through a feminist and social‑science lens.

A comprehensive chronological survey of American transgender history from the mid‑20th century to the present, detailing key movements, writings, and cultural moments.

Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white “color line,” the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality. At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public’s attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual “deviance” were used to reinforce each other’s terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis’s late nineteenth-century work on “sexual inversion,” the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer’s fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. Queering the Color Line will have broad appeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.

Psychogenesis examines transsexualism and homosexuality in men and women, exploring gender identity development through hormone therapy and psychological identification.

Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children’s theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there. Samuel R. Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city's physical and psychological landscape. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R. Delany’s groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.

The Transgender Studies Reader compiles fifty key texts, introduced by Susan Stryker, charting the field’s development within queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality.

An illustrated scholarly study of how phallus imagery shaped politics, law, and gender in ancient Athens, revealing both its dominance and the early counter‑movement of feminism and anti‑militarism.

Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe explores how evolving gender roles influenced the political, economic, and social transformations of Europe from the late 18th century onward, blending history, sociology, and sexuality studies.

Biography of Michael Dillon, a pioneering transsexual who, in the 1920s, broke new ground in gender transition through hormone therapy and surgery, reshaping medical understanding of gender identity.

Peter Boag reveals the often‑forgotten reality of cross‑dressing and gender fluidity in the 19th‑century American West, examining how the frontier’s diverse actors reshaped their identities amid emerging societal norms.