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  Middlesex

  by Jeffrey Eugenides

  A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides — the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that... (more)
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  As Nature Made Him

  The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl

  by John Colapinto

  In  1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender.  The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine -- and a total failure.  As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male.  A macabre tale of medical... (more)
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  Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)

  by Thea Hillman

  “In Hillman’s world, the surer you become about who you are, the more vulnerable you get.”— The San Francisco Bay Guardian “Hillman’s writing is sexy because it’s smart and refuses to simplify things.”— Fabula Magazine "Hillman's utterly unabashed memoir...showcases both the personal, embodied realities of intersex, and the social and political milieus that shape them... Intersex , too, is gorgeously... (more)
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  Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes

  by Gerald N. Callahan

  “On October 10, 1970, the day she was born, she was named Dorothy Maree Alaniz--a baby girl. Curiously, though, no one filled out a birth certificate that day. When the certificate was finally filed on November 5, the name on it was Rudolph Andrew Alaniz. Within less than one month after her birth, this girl became a boy.”   Every year in the United States, more than two thousand children are born with an... (more)
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  Herculine Barbin

  by Herculine Barbin

  With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man.... (more)
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  Peninsula of Lies

  A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love

  by Edward Ball

  Peninsula of Lies is nonfiction mystery, set in a haunting gothic locale and peopled by fascinating and eccentric characters. Its hero and heroine is Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and became the center of one of the most unusual sexual scandals. Born in England, Dawn began life as a boy named Gordon Langley Hall, the son of servants at... (more)
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  Children of the Triad: Book 3

  Ara's Field

  by Laurie J. Marks

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  Children of the Triad: Book 1

  Delan the Mislaid

  by Laurie J. Marks

  An object of derision because of the lumpy deformities on his back, the misfit creature known as Delan begins a painful journey of self-discovery when id is purchased by a sadistic sorcerer who intends to use Delan's latent power for his own purposes. Delan's transformation from a monster without a past to a graceful airborne creature with the ability to control ids own--and ids world's--future results in an... (more)
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  Children of the Triad: Book 2

  The Moonbane Mage

  by Laurie J. Marks

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  Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

  by Alice Domurat Dreger

  Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites -- people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy -- and the medical and scientific professionals who were confronted by them.
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  Ethics and Intersex (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

  This collection of 21 articles is designed to serve as a state-of-the art reference book for intersexuals, their parents, health care professionals, ethics committee members, and anyone interested in problems associated with intersexuality. It fills an important need because of its uniqueness as an interdisciplinary effort, bringing together not just urologists and endocrinologists, but gynecologists,... (more)
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  The Sinkings

  by Amanda Curtin

  In 1882, human remains were discovered at the Sinkings, a lonely campsite near Albany, Western Australia. The surgeon conducting the autopsy claimed they were those of a woman. Why, then, was the victim later identified as Little Jock, a former convict? And why was the murder so brutal, so gruesome? More than a hundred years later, Willa Samson embarks on a long and lonely search to find out. The Sinkings is a... (more)
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  Undoing Gender

  by Judith Butler

  Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays revisit the problem of kinship in light of new challenges to the family form, interrogate the meaning and purposes of the incest taboo, and challenge the ways in which intersexuality and transsexuality are pathologized.
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  The Reinvention of Love

  by Helen Humphreys

  This title is based on the true story of Charles Sainte-Beuve, his lover Adele and her husband, Victor Hugo. When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not Victor he is really attracted to - it is his wife Adele. Soon the two lovers are... (more)
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  Intersex: A Challenge for Human Rights and Citizenship Rights

  by Annette Bromdal

  Is it a Girl or is it a Boy? This is usually one of the first questions the parents of the newborn baby ask, and in most cases this question can be answered rather quickly. However, in some cases the baby is born with an Intersex condition where the situation is more complex and our mainstream understanding of sex and gender is insufficient and rigid. Because Intersex individuals have, since the 1950s, undergone... (more)
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  Online Intersex Communities: Virtual Neighborhoods of Support and Activism

  by Brian Still

  Once referred to as hermaphrodites, intersex persons are born with a sexual anatomy or physiology inconsistent with social expectations of what constitutes a normal male or female. Of course, this definition of intersexuality, like all definitions, is rhetorically charged. In other words, intersexuality does not have meaning in and of itself that can be separated from the culture in which it resides. It is a... (more)
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  Gender circuits : bodies and identities in a technological age

  by Eve Shapiro

  Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied identities, this book explores whether and how new technologies are reshaping what it means to be a gendered person in... (more)
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  Annabel

  by Kathleen Winter

  Kathleen Winter’s luminous debut novel is a deeply affecting portrait of life in an enchanting seaside town and the trials of growing up unique in a restrictive environment. In 1968, into the devastating, spare atmosphere of the remote coastal town of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret—the... (more)