Trans People in Love Author: Tracie O'Keefe (Editor), Katrina Fox (Editor) Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 978-0-7890-3572-1 Format: Paperback (also available in Hardback) Publication Date: 2008 Pages: 312
Trans People in Love is a illuminating resource for members of the trans community and their partners and families; gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and intersex people; sexologists; sex therapists; counselors; psychologists; psychotherapists; social workers; psychiatrists; medical doctors; educators; students; and couples and family therapists.
Trans People in Love provides a forum for the experience of being in love and in relationships with significant others for members of the trans community. This honest and respectful volume tells clinicians, scholars, and trans people themselves of the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to a romantic relationship, what skills and mindsets are needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in all stages of transition can create stable and loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling.
This important book features a wide range of relationships from monogamous heterosexuality and queer partnerships to lesbian vampire polyamory and BDSM from around the globe, and reveals the diverse experiences of people in different cultures. These real-life love stories are widely varied, sometimes happy, at times tragic, many times erotic, but always honest. This book transcends gender issues and stands as a testament to the true power of love.
The Shipping Mistake Author: Natasha Anne Mocke Publisher: Natasha Anne Mocke ISBN: 9781411640405 (Hardcover)/9781411663558 (Paperback) Format: Hardcover/Paperback Publication Date: 2006 Pages: 216
Fraser was a hard-working, successful, loving and dedicated husband and father of two. He was doing well in his career and in his social life, but he always knew there was something about him that was a little different. He could not quite put his finger on it. One fateful morning he found himself presented with two options, breakfast or suicide. And so the journey to becoming Natasha began. Leaving behind a successful life and creating a new one filled with unknowns is difficult and scary, and not one to be taken lightly. Follow Fraser’s arduous journey to becoming Natasha and share in both the difficult, challenging and humorous happenings along the way up until, but not including, her surgery.
Psychology as a discipline has been criticised for perpetuating sexism, reproducing gender inequality, and neglecting marginalised perspectives. Internationally, an increasing attempt is being made to provide a critical gender analysis of the discipline and practice, and to theorise the contribution that psychology may make to addressing such issues. Making an important contribution to this critique and written by a team of experienced authors, The Gender of Psychology addresses the diversity of psychological knowledge and practice through the lens of gender. This text will stimulate critical and applied thinking, and prove indispensable to students in the social sciences, particularly those in the disciplines of Gender, women's studies and psychology.
Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa Author: Marc Epprecht Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN: 0773527516 Format: Softcover Publication Date: 2005/2 Pages: 344
Queer culture in Africa has long been neglected or stereotyped. Hungochani, challenges the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present. Epprecht traces the history and traditions of homosexuality in southern Africa, modern gay and lesbian identities and the vibrant gay rights movement.
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Invisible Lives: The Erasure of transsexual and Transgendered People Author: Viviane K. Namaste Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226568105 Format: Softcover Publication Date: 2000/12 Pages: 320
Through combined theoretical and empirical study, this work argues that transgendered people are not so much "produced" by medicine or psychiatry as they are "erased", or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. An analysis is made of two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people - queer theory and the social sciences - displaying how neither of these has adequately addressed the issues most relevant to sex change: everything from employment to health care to identity papers. Namaste then examines some of the rhetorical and semiotic inscriptons of transgendered figures in culture - including studies of early punk and glam rock subcultures - to illustrate how the effacement of transgendered people is organized in different cultural sites. This text concludes with research on some of the day-to-day concerns of transgendered people, offering case studies in violence, health care, Gender identity clinics and the law.
The Shipping Mistake
Gender of Psychology
Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of 
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