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  1. A Man's Tale

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Pepper, John
    Date: 1982
    Topics: Authors, Broadcasters, Cartoonists, Crossdressing, Femininities, LGBTQ+ Buddhists
    Description: A Man's Tale is an autobiography by British writer, cartoonist, and broadcaster John Pepper, who sometimes took on the feminine persona of Angela Summerfields. Pepper's understanding of the masculi...
  2. Art and Illusion: a Guide to Crossdressing

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Roberts, JoAnn
    Date: 1986
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Passing (Gender)
    Description: This is the first edition of Art and Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing
  3. Artificial Rejuvenation and Voluntary Change of Sex: According to Professor Steinach

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Penn, Henry S., Ishlondsky, N.E., Steinach, Eugen
    Date: 1926
    Topics: Gender realignment surgery, Health sciences, Hormones, Medical interventions, Transsexualism
    Subject: Brown Sequard, Eugen Steinach, Fiebiger, Magnus Hirschfeld, Otto Weininger, Romeis, Élie Metchnikoff
  4. Autobiography of an Androgyne

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Duke University
    Creator: Lind, Earl
    Date: 1918
    Topics: Female impersonators, Third gender
  5. Catherine Littlefield Greene, and other stories

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Haley, John Williams
    Date: 1929
    Topics: Agender identity, Cotton gins and ginning, Religious leaders, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
    Subject: Public Universal Friend
    Description: A short book narrating stories from Rhode Island history, including the life of Catherine Littlefield Greene and her work alongside her husband, General Nathanael Greene, during the Revolutionary W...
  6. Der erotische Verkleidungstrieb (Die Transvestiten)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hirschfeld, Magnus
    Date: 1912
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Paraphilias, Sexology, Sexual excitement, Social and behavioural sciences
  7. Die Transvestiten: eine Untersuchung über den erotischen Verkleidungstrieb mit umfangreichem casuistischen und historischen Material

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hirschfeld, Magnus
    Date: 1910
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Gender identity, Psychology, Sexology, Sexual excitement, Social and behavioural sciences
  8. From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sullivan, Lou
    Date: 1990
    Topics: Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Spanish-American War, 1898, Transmasculine people
    Subject: Allan Berube, Babe Bean, Harry Benjamin, Jack Garland, James H. Budd, Mary L. Haines, Masquerade laws, Richard von Krafft-Ebing
    Description: A book written by Lou Sullivan detailing the life of Jack Bee Garland. The book excerpts numerous historical sources and reproduces a number of images.
  9. I Never Asked to Be Born: The Carol Durrell Story

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Durrell, Carol
    Date: circa 1990 to circa 2000
    Topics: Black transgender people, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ musicians, Police entrapment of LGBTQ+ people, Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people , Trans women
    Subject: Carol Durrell
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to child abuse and sexual assault. The autobiography of Carol Durrell (1945-2012), later known as Carolyn D. Rothschild, a ...
  10. Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Sullivan, Louis G.
    Date: 1985
    Topics: Crossdressers, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hormone therapy, Passing (Gender), Sexual relationships, Transsexual people
    Subject: A Man Like Eva, Alan L. Hart, Calamity Jane, Charley Wilson, Colonel Sir Victor Barker, I Want What I Want, Jack Bee Garland, James Barry, Mary Walker, Milton B. Matson, Murray H. Hall, Ralph Kerwinieo, Sylvia Scarlett, Vesta Tilley, Yentl
    Description: Published in 1985 and authored by L. Sullivan, “Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual” is a handbook that provides general advice for those who identify along the female-t...
  11. 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 ...
  12. L' homme femme Mlle. Savalette de Lange, 1786-1858

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Moussoir, Georges
    Date: 1902
    Topics: Trans women
    Subject: Jenny De Savalette De Lange
    Description: A biography of Jenny de Savalette de Lange written by George Moussoir. Jenny de Savalette de Lange was the daughter of a Freemason who lived in Paris and Versailles; she was granted a pension by Na...
  13. 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...
  14. Oh, What a Drag! The Life and Career of Wacky Jackie Phillips, Finnochio's Riotous Redhead

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Dewsnap, James
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Celebrities, Clothing, Comedians, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Drag performers, Drag queens, Drag shows, Female impersonators, Gender roles, Homosexuality, Jails, LGBTQ+ people who use substances, LGBTQ+ spiritual people, LGBTQ+ theater, LGBTQ+ youth, Passing (Gender), Queens (Gay culture), Traffic accident victims
    Subject: Beige Room, Bobby Lane, Bobby Raye, Carroll Wallace, Cleo Stafford, Colonial Club, Elton Paris, Finocchio's Club, Flash Gordon, Halloween, Jack Long, Jackie Phillips, Jean Barrios, Jean LaMar, Kara Montez, Kitty Carlisle Hart, LaVerne Cummings, Les Lee, Lonnie Harper, Mardi Gras, Poppy Lane, Ray Saunders, Ricki San Juan, Russell Reed, Rusty Parkor, Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Hart
    Description: The autobiography of Jackie Phillips, longtime comedy queen at Finocchio's, as told to and ghostwritten by James Dewsnap. Book recounts Jackie's personal life and career development both pre- and p...
  15. 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.