The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
By: Leah DeVun
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who …
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1. Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (Mit Press)
By: Katharine Park
4.23
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing atte… read more
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- gender
- history
- nonfiction
2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. Babel-17
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more
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4. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. A Safe Girl to Love
By: Casey Plett
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
6. The Last of the Wine
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey … read more
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- lgbt
7. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
By: Afsaneh Najmabadi
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this ground… read more
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8. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
By: Caroline Walker Bynum
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widesprea… read more
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9. Jesus As Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages
By: Caroline Walker Bynum
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the Introduction, by Caroline Walker Bynum: The opportunity to rethink and republish several o… read more
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10. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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11. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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12. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more
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13. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
14. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
By: Lou Sullivan
4.76
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
15. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
16. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
17. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
18. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.47
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
19. Histories of the Transgender Child
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front… read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
20. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
21. Female Husbands: A Trans History
By: Jen Manion
4.01
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- queer
22. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
23. Confessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more
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- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
24. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.31
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- sociology
- queer
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
25. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
By: Leah DeVun
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- gender and sexuality
- sociology
- queer
26. Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages
By: Roland Betancourt
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world While the term “intersectio… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
27. Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology
By: Monica H. Green
4.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century… read more
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- feminism
- history
- nonfiction
28. Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
By: Zeb Tortorici
4.26
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (pr… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
By: Brooke N. Newman
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas)
By: Dagmar Herzog
3.95
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles ove… read more
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- feminism
- history
31. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
By: Alicia Spencer-Hall
3.86
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of… read more
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- nonfiction
- gender
