Books like The spirit and the flesh by Walter L. Williams

The Warmth of Other Suns is a non‑fiction study of the Great Migration, tracing the journey of nearly six million African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970.

A pioneering 1903 collection of essays exploring the moral and intellectual challenges of American society's perception of black Americans.

Changing Ones: A Study of Gender Diversity in Native North America

Richard C. Trexler explores how European conquerors used claims about American sodomy and gender transgression to justify colonial domination, while examining Native gender roles, especially the berdache, and the parallels in social power structures.

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.

This anthology compiles sensational gay erotica from American writers, featuring new stories by Anne Rice and works by Edmund White, Alan Hollinghurst, Larry Townsend and Pat Califia.

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.

An edited collection that explores the lives and cultures of Two‑Spirit peoples—Native Americans whose gender and sexual identities transcend conventional categories.

David F. Greenberg traces the historical construction of male homosexuality from ancient civilizations through the Middle Ages to modern times, examining cultural, religious, and artistic attitudes that have shaped societal norms.

A biography of We'wha, a Zuni man who lived as a woman for 47 years and influenced history as a berdache.

As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities.This book provides an objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span. Sabine Lang explores such topics as their religious and secular roles; the relation of the roles of women-men and men-women to the roles of women and men in their respective societies; the ways in which gender-role change was carried out, legitimized, and explained in Native American cultures; the widely differing attitudes toward women-men and men-women in tribal cultures; and the role of these figures in Native mythology. Lang's findings challenge the apparent gender equality of the "berdache" institution, as well as the supposed universality of concepts such as homosexuality.