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  1. Journal of a Transsexual

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Feb. 1980
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Femininities, FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender expression, Hair, Harassment, Hormones, LGBTQ+ employment, Masculinities, Mastectomy, Misgendering, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Public bathrooms, Sexual identity, Social norms, Transsexual people, Voice, Working class writings
    Subject: Bob McCubbin, Dorothy Ballan, Feminism and Marxism, In the Spirit of Stonewall, Leslie Feinberg, New Jersey Supreme Court, Robert Frost, The Gay Question: A Marxist Appraisal, The Road Not Taken, Workers World Newspaper, Workers World Party
    Description: A short theoretical piece in the form of a memoir by Leslie Feinberg, published in 1980. This work was Feinberg's first public attempt to put forward a political stance on trans liberation outside ...
  2. L' Androgyne

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Péladan, Joséphin
    Date: 1891
    Topics: Androgynous people, Androgyny, Androgyny (Psychology) in literature, Androgyny (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity, Androgyny (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Paganism, Sex differences (Psychology), Symbolism (Literary movement)
    Description: A novel by Joséphin Péladan (1858-1918), a French Symbolist writer and occultist who regarded androgyny as a spiritual ideal.
  3. Mei Lan-Fang: Chinese Drama

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: 1930
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese
    Subject: Mei Lanfang
    Description: A souvenir program from Mei Lanfang's first American tour, 1930. The program includes articles about Chinese drama, costumes, stage properties, musical instruments, and synopsis of touring repertoi...
  4. Mei Lan-Fang: Foremost Actor of China

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator:
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Operas, Chinese
    Subject: Mei Lanfang
    Description: A book about Mei Lanfang, a female impersonator, and her contribution to Chinese Opera. The book is autographed and inscribed by Mei Lan-Fang to Prof. Albert R. Lovejoy. There are many sepia photo...
  5. Memoir of Jemima Wilkinson: a preacheress of the eighteenth century; containing an authentic narrative of her life and character, and of the rise, progress and conclusion of her ministry

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Hudson, David
    Date: 1844
    Topics: Agender identity, Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ religious people, Non-binary people, Religious leaders
    Subject: Public Universal Friend
    Description: An early biography of the Public Universal Friend (1752-1819), an American evangelist who did not identify with any gender or pronouns.
  6. Once I Was a Man: Behold, I Am a Woman

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Cochrane, Felicity, Dianna
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: D. Cauldwell, Felicity Cochrane, H. Benjamin, Lili Elbe, Mary Walker
    Description: On item cover: Once I was a man. The story of my life before and after the operation that changed by sex, by DIANNA as told to Felicity Cochrane.
  7. Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathetic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-forensic Study

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
    Date: 1886
    Topics: Bisexuality, Eugenics, Gender dysphoria, Homosexuality, Medicalization, Sadomasochism
    Description: <i>Psychopathia Sexualis</i> was a landmark 1886 book about human sexuality by the German psychiatrist Richard von Kraft-Ebbing. Although Kraft-Ebbing's book heavily pathologized its subjects and r...
  8. Sex Life of a Transvestite

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Murdock, Larry
    Date: 1964
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender realignment surgery, Transsexualism
    Subject: Charles Prince, Leonard A. Wheeler, Sexology, Transvestia, Turnabout
  9. [S**-M***]: The Sex-Reversal True Life Story of COCCINELLE

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Wade, Carlson
    Date: 1963
    Topics: Gender expression, Gender-affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ night life, MtFs, Trans women
    Subject: Coccinelle
    Description: A biography by the pulp sexologist Carlson Wade of Coccinelle, a French nightclub performer and transgender icon. It tells the story of her childhood, dysphoria, transition, marriage, and entertain...
  10. Stone Butch Blues

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Authors, Butches, Chest reconstruction surgery, Classism, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag queens, Feminism, Femmes, Gender expression, Gender non-conforming people, Harassment, Hate crimes, Homelessness, Jewish LGBTQ+ people, Labor, Labor movement, Labor unions, Lesbian liberation, Lesbianism, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ authors, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ civil rights, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, LGBTQ+ social processes, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Police harassment, Queer rights, Sexual harassment, Stone butches, Stonewall riots, Testosterone, Trans women, Transgender rights, Transmasculinity, Transphobia
    Subject: Alison Bechdel, Assata Shakur, CeCe McDonald, Chrystos, Eileen Myles, Emanuel Xavier, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Holly Hughes, Jess Goldberg, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Halberstam, Lambda Literary Award, Michael M. Hernandez, Stonewall Book Award, Susan Stryker
    Description: Originally published in 1993 by Firebrand Books, "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg is a novel that centers around protagonist Jess Goldberg and Jess' relationship to sexual and gender identity...
  11. The female-impersonators : a sequel to the Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Lind, Earl, Werther, Ralph
    Date: 1922
    Topics: Androgyny, Homosexuality, Intersex people
    Subject: Autobiography of an Androgyne, Earl Lind, The Riddle of the Underworld
  12. The Fifth Sex: The Forbidden World of the Hermaphrodites

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Kling, Janet, Dylan, Bob
    Date: 1969
    Topics: Intersex, Intersex people
    Subject: World War I, World War II
    Description: Contents: Bob Dylan: A Case of Penis Identity -- Janet Kling: Case of the Well Hung Girl -- Bob Dylan: Case of the Orgey at Cripple Creek -- Janet Kling: Case of the Reluctant Thighs -- Bob Dylan: ...
  13. The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language (Vol. IV. Scream--Zythum)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Ogilvie, John
    Date: 1883
    Topics: Transfemininity, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Sir Thomas Browne
    Description: On page 414, the words "Transexion" and "Transfeminate" are defined. Both terms are attributed to "Sir T. Browne" in reference to the physician and influential writer Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxi...
  14. The Third Pathway

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Chanā, Kīratī, Chanar, Kiratree
    Date: 2002
    Topics: Asian LGBTQ+ people, Asian transgender people, Gender-affirming surgery, Katoey, LGBTQ+ romance fiction, Thai literature, Transgender authors, Transgender romance fiction
    Description: The first well-known Thai novel on Kathoey’s lives, Thang-Sai-Thee-Sam (The Third Pathway) was serialized in Sakul Thai magazine between 1980 and 1981 and later published as a book in 1982. It is w...
  15. The Transsexual Phenomenon

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Benjamin, Harry
    Date: 1966
    Topics: Crossdressers, Gender-affirming surgery, Hormones, Medicalization, Physicians, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transvestism
    Description: The Transsexual Phenomenon is a medical textbook published by American endocrinologist and sexologist Harry Benjamin in 1966 with The Julian Press.