LibGuides: Wellbeing Collection: Gender

Books

The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality by Morgan Potts; Morgan Lev Edward Holleb
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 306.76 HOL
A guide to accurate terminology to describe gender identity, sexuality, and sexual orientation, as well as slang relevant to LGBTQ+ rights and anti-discrimination.
Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks
Call Number: Merchiston Main stock 305.4201 HAN
A short introduction to feminism theory and an argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today.
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
Call Number: Merchiston Main stock 813.54
In this novel, Luna confronts the mystery, confusion, and struggles of gender identity.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Call Number: Merchiston Main stock 813.6
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this novel is a story of Calliope, growing up in 70s Michigan. Calliope’s special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th-century America.
Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 306.7680973 FEI
A collection of speeches by the late author and activist Leslie Feinberg on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people.
They/Them/Their by Eris Young
Call Number: Merchiston Main stock 306.768 YOU & ebook
Eris Young explores what it's like to live outside of the gender binary and how it can impact one's relationships, sense of identity, use of language, and more.
Queer: a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker; Julia Scheele (Illustrator); Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
Call Number: 306.766 BAR
ISBN: 9781785780714
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
A graphic novel journey from the nineteenth-century sexologists to mid-twentieth-century sex therapists, the gay rights movement, and the broad range of scholars and cultural critics who questioned conceptions of sexual identity and gender.
Is It a Choice? by Eric Marcus
Call Number: Craiglockhart Main stock 306.76 MAR
Eric Marcus provides answers to hundreds of the most commonly asked questions about homosexuality, same-gender relationships, coming out, family roles, politics, and more.
Gender: a Graphic Guide by Meg John Barker; Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
Call Number: Sighthill, Wellbeing Collection, 305.30222 BAR
ISBN: 9781785784521
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
There Is No Good Card for This by Kelsey Crowe; Emily McDowell
Call Number: Merchiston, Wellbeing Collection, 155.93 CRO
ISBN: 9780062469991
Publication Date: 2017-01-17

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Videos

Becoming Myself: Gender Identity
A revealing series which goes inside the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic in Hammersmith, London - the largest and oldest in the world - to explore the condition of gender dysphoria - a sense of distress caused by a disjunction between biological sex and gender identity.

Podcasts

The Heart
This 2017 season of The Heart features four episodes where masculinity and femininity meet.
Transgeneral
This series presents informative and humorous discussions on trans issues. Australian trans women Charlotte Tortorella and Chelsey Sanderson started the show to present trans topics in an approachable way for listeners unfamiliar with transitioning.

Apps

Refuge Restrooms
This handy app finds safe restrooms for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals.