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  1. Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators: Celestial and Human (Facsimile Edition)

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Bulliet, Clarence Joseph
    Date: 1956
    Topics: Amazons, Bible, Christianity, Circumcision, Crossdressers, Drag, Drag queens, Eroticism, Femininities, History, Homophobia, Judaism, Masculinities, Music, Mythology, Passing (Gender), Poets, Psychology, Sexuality, Sportspersons, Theatre, Transphobia, Visual arts
    Subject: Abbé de Choisy, Antoine Francois Derues, Bernard S. Talmey, Farinelli, Freud, Girolamo Crescentini, Havelock Ellis, Julian Eltinge, Julius Caesar, King Charles II, Leonardo da Vinci, Memories of the Kaiser's Court, Michelangelo, Oscar Wilde, Penal Code of 1889, Queen Elizabeth I, Raphael de la Chapelle, Secret Life of the Kaiser, Shakespeare, The Dark Ages, Witches' Sabbath, World War I
    Description: Contents: At the shrine of Venus Castina --The hero in woman's dress -- Achilles. Hercules, Samson -- The gods in fine laces -- Love of the philosophers -- Orgy of the Caesars -- Versatility of Sat...
  2. Transvestism Today

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Podolsky, Edward, Wade, Carlson
    Date: 1960
    Topics: Childhood, Criminal law, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Female impersonators, Heterosexuality, History, Homosexuality, Medical sciences, Parents of crossdressers, Partners of transgender people, Psychologists, Psychology, Sexual excitement, Sexual orientation, Transsexual people, Transsexualism, Underwear
    Subject: Alfred Kinsey, Bambi, Bernhard Berliner, Burma, Carlos Eduardo Sosa, Chevalier D'Eon, Christine Jorgensen, Coccinelle, David O. Cauldwell, Edwin W. Hirsch, Francois Timoleon de Choisy, George W. Henry, Harry Benjamin, Hasty Pudding Club, Havelock Ellis, Hugo Beigel, Jack Lemmon, Kabuki Theatre, Kenneth Walker, Kitt Russell, Magnus Hirschfeld, Margaret Mead, Mario Costello, Mary Anne Talbot, Otto Fenichel, Powdered Wig Society, Ray Leen, Tony Curtis, Transvestism Today
    Description: Summary reads: "An individual who derives pleasure from wearing clothes of the opposite sex is called a 'transvestite.' When a man wears female clothing, complete with bloomers, brassiere, slip and...
  3. Transvestism Around the World

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: S-K Press
    Date: 1964
    Topics: Crossdressers, Discos, Drag, Drag queens, Photography, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Carrousel Club, Coccinelle, Ricky Rene, Shalimar, Terry Durham
    Description: Contents: Bambi -- Coccinelle -- Carrousel Club -- Terry Durham -- Ricky Rene_ -- Shalimar -- Madame Arthur's (Paris) -- Madame Arthur's (Amsterdam).
  4. Transgender Liberation

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Jun. 1992
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Anti-transgender violence, Butches, Criminalization, Gay movement, Gender expression, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ visibility, Mass media, Passing (Gender), Police harassment, Stonewall riots, Transgender community
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Joan of Arc
    Description: A pamphlet written by Leslie Feinberg in 1992. In the pamphlet, Feinberg attempts to map the history of transgender people as well as the discrimination this community has faced through the years.
  5. 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...
  6. 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: ...
  7. 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
  8. 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...
  9. 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
  10. Poems of Truth

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Dillon, Michael
    Date: 1957
    Topics: Mysticism, Trans men, Transgender Buddhists, Transgender poetry, Transsexual people
    Subject: George Gurdjieff, Michael Dillon
    Description: Michael Dillon's 1957 "Poems of Truth" explores spiritual themes from a variety of religious and philosophical traditions in verse and short prose poems. The work continues themes explored in "Self...
  11. 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.
  12. Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender : A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse from 1967 to 1991

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Raj, Rupert
    Date: Jul. 2018
    Topics: Crossdressers, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Kim Elizabeth Stuart, Rupert Raj, Trish Salah
    Description: "This treasury of transsexual, transgenderist and transvestic verse is a compilation of close to 400 poems and short prose penned by some 169 people from Canada, the United States, the United Kingd...
  13. Mountain Charley

     
    Collection: Rare Books
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Charley, Mountain
    Date: 1861
    Topics: Crossdressing, Frontier and pioneer life, Gender expression, Stealth (Transgender)
    Description: The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin's life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...