5 must-read gender books like Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility by Ruth Pearce

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Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility

By: Ruth Pearce

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean for someone to be ‘trans’? What are the implications of this for healthcare provi…

If you liked the gender plot in Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility by Ruth Pearce , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Cover of The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) by Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel Roukin

2. The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Samuel Roukin

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ringsand Ursula K. Le G… read more

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Cover of Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5) by Ursula K. Le Guin

3. Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.08

Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five stories of Ursula K. Le Guin's world-renowned realm of Earthsea are collected in one volume. F… read more

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"True art requires a single heart."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"Things came round if you could wait for them."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

"things change: authors and wizards are not always to be trusted: nobody can explain a dragon."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)

4. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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5. Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

By: Anne Rice

4.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal li… read more

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6. Piranesi

By: Susanna Clarke

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls … read more

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"In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

"May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

"The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

"It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted."

-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

Cover of Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) by Aiden Thomas

7. Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.27

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx famil… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"But now your mess is my mess, too."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"What are you going to do, stab me ?"

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"Maritza smiled. "Let's do this, brujo."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

"Julian's chuckle was wet. "Valió ... la pena."

-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

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8. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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9. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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10. 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

Cover of Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado

11. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson

12. 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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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

13. Detransition, Baby

By: Torrey Peters

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more

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  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

Cover of A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

14. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

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  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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16. Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility

By: Ruth Pearce

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean for someone to be ‘trans’? What are the implications of this for healthcare provi… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Pearce's Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility book and Ruth Pearce's Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility

  • social science
  • transgender
  • health
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer

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Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

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4.27

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Henry Hoke

4.01

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Imogen Binnie

3.97

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Terry Brooks

3.77

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3.40

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Gene Wolfe

5.00

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Sofia Samatar

4.14

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