Books like Gender by Suzanne J. Kessler

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 young art student becomes a nanny in New York's elite, where secrets, romance, and danger blur the line between protecting a friend and trusting love.

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.

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

The capacity to be attracted, and attractive, to people of both sexes is something we take for granted in the famous and infamous (rock stars and other celebrities); in the unfamous we tend to ignore it or to dismiss it as confusion or lack of self-knowledge. Yet bisexuality shows up everywhere once we open our eyes - in our daily lives, in our childhoods, in books, movies, art, and popular culture. As part of our contemporary obsession with categories and identities, we use marriage and other institutions, homosexual as well as heterosexual, to pigeonhole sexuality. But why should we? We live long sexual lives, in the sense that between birth and death we form many intense and varied personal attachments. We tend to select a few of those attachments and derive from them a label, "straight" or "gay," for our "sexual identity." The rest - an adolescent "crush," for example, or the passion a favorite teacher inspired - we write off as "phases" or footnotes. But, as Marjorie Garber reveals, this pruning away of our sexual lives cuts us off from many deep and important feelings. . Garber argues that erotic life is, by nature, politically incorrect and unpredictable. This unpredictability locates bisexuality not between heterosexuality and homosexuality but beyond them. Gathering evidence from art, literature, film, pop culture, advertising, science, and psychology, Garber documents how, both for cultures and for individuals, circumstance, accident, and inclination produce a rich and complicated history of emotion and experience over time.

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.