Books like Becoming a woman by Richard F. Docter

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie redefines feminism for the 21st century, drawing on her experiences and TL;DER sexual politics, urging everyone to embrace feminist principles.

The Female Brain explains how women’s minds work, drawing on two decades of research and clinical practice to reveal the unique neurological and hormonal influences on female behavior.

Jan Morris chronicles her groundbreaking journey through gender transition, weaving detailed case studies of hormone therapy and gender reassignment with a memoir of travel, family, and romance.

Tracing the arc of transsexuality in America, Joanne J. Meyerowitz chronicles individual stories, medical breakthroughs, and cultural shifts that redefined sex, gender, and rights throughout the twentieth century.

Explores how gender identity, hormone therapy, and gender‑reassignment surgery intersect with clothing choices, social roles, and psychological experience among transsexuals.

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.

In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce into trans identities, culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans men's own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men. With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politics and community-building and provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his research.