{"title":"Gender studies: transgender people Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-letter-to-my-transgender-daughter-9781529064506","title":"A Letter to My Transgender Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA parent’s deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Stunning . . . 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And so they uprooted their lives to the more trans-accepting Northeast United States, though they were never far from the hate and fear resting at the nation’s core.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntimate and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eA Letter to My Transgender Daughter \u003c\/i\u003eis an ode to Hays’s brilliant, brave child, as well as a cathartic revisit of the pain of the past. It tells of the brutal truths of being trans, of the sacrificial nature of motherhood, and of the lengths a family will go to shield their youngest from the cruel realities of the world. Hays asks us all to love better, for children everywhere enduring injustice and prejudice just as they begin to understand themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Letter to My Transgender Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of difference, a plea for empathy, a hope for a better future, but moreover, it is a love letter to a child who has always known herself and is waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginally published as\u003ci\u003e A Girlhood: A Letter to My Transgender Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStunning . . . \u003cb\u003eBuilt like a thriller\u003c\/b\u003e, moving, wise and\u003cb\u003e illuminated on every page with love\u003c\/b\u003e' -- Joanne Harris, author of \u003ci\u003eChocolat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHays’s story is about more than the transgender question: it’s about ignorance and wisdom; hatred and love; men, women, and children. 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Jourdan and Harper B. Keenan Chapter 2: Race, Ethnicity, \u0026amp; Culture, Romeo Romero and Sy Simms Chapter 3: Immigration, Maria Carmen Hinayon Chapter 4: Disabilities, Sarah Cavar and Alexandre Baril Chapter 5: Religion \u0026amp; Spirituality, Kelsey Pacha Chapter 6: Sex \u0026amp; Gender Development, E. Kale Edmiston, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, T. Evan Smith, and Anastacia Tomson  Section 2: Living as Ourselves Chapter 7: Coming Out, Reid Vanderburgh Chapter 8: Social Transition, Florence Ashley and Avy A. Skolnik Chapter 9: Work \u0026amp; Employment, Lily Zheng and Jillian Weiss Chapter 10: Legal Issues, Sasha Buchert and Ezra Young  Section 3: Health and Wellness Chapter 11: General, Sexual, and Reproductive Health, Nick Gorton, and Hilary Maia Grubb Chapter 12: Medical Transition, A.C. Demidont, Paul Irons, and Jamie E. Mehringer Chapter 13: Surgical Transition, Gaines Blasdel and Nathan Levitt Chapter 14: Mental Health \u0026amp; Emotional Wellness, Sand Chang and Nathaniel G. Sharon  Section 4: Relationships and Families Chapter 15: Intimate Relationships, Andie Leslie, Micah Rea, Sarah E. Belawski and Carey Jean Sojka Chapter 16: Sexuality, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Mx Nillin Lore, Jiz Lee, and Dean Scarborough Chapter 17: Parenting, Junior Brainard and Morgan Weinert  Section 5: Life Stages Chapter 18: Children, Aidan Key and Micah Vacatio Chapter 19: Youth, G. Nic Rider and Colt St. Amand  Chapter 20: Aging, Leigh Anne Gregory and Pony Knowles  Section 6: Claiming Our Power Chapter 21: U.S. History, Andrés C. López and Qwo-Li Driskill Chapter 22: Arts \u0026amp; Culture, Erica Chu, Arbor Archuletta, and Joseph Liatela Chapter 23: Activism, Politics, \u0026amp; Organizing, Benji Hart and Kung Feng  Afterword, Jennifer Finney Boylan Contributors Glossary, edited by Kevin Johnson Index Suggestions","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732533457239,"sku":"9780190092726","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"an-open-secret-the-family-story-of-robert-and-john-gregg-allerton-9780226638744","title":"An Open Secret  The Family Story of Robert and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1922 Robert Allertondescribed by the Chicago Tribune as the richest bachelor in Chicagomet a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history.   An Open Secret tells the striking story of these two iconoclasts, locating them among their queer contemporaries and exploring why becoming father and son made a surprising kind of sense for a twentieth-century couple who had every monetary advantage but one glaring problem: they wanted to be together publicly in a society that did not tolerate their love. Deftly exploring the nature of their design, domestic, and philanthropic projects, Nicholas L. Syrett illuminates how viewing the Allertons as both a same-sex couple and an adopted family is crucial to understanding their relationship's profound queerness. By digging deep into the lives of two men who operated largely as ciphers in their own time, he opens up provocative new lanes to consider the diversity of kinship ties in modern US history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first lines of Nicholas Syrett’s third book, \u003ci\u003eAn Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton\u003c\/i\u003e, had me hooked. . . [Syrett] takes us into the world of an Illinois couple—one born into a rich family with ties to the founding of the Union Stock Yards and the First National Bank of Chicago; the other an orphan in his early twenties, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for architecture with a part-time job and inheritance money.\" * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003e“The book brings a critical view to the gay intergenerational relationship. It reveals how same-sex love was transformed into familial ties but also into an open secret where the boundary between knowingness and unknowingness was always in suspension.”\u003cbr\u003e   * DNA Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"An intriguing, complicated, and critical account of a queer affair and one that demonstrates the difficulty of applying contemporary terminologies, practices, and values to past relationships, especially those with limited and latent evidence of queerness. . . . Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Syrett’s expert portrait shakes up modern assumptions about queer coupledom. His richly nuanced interpretation reveals that the kinship claim of these men was not merely a front to hide their sexuality, but a deeply meaningful structure for their emotional and physical intimacy. Not quite the story of a same-sex marriage, \u003ci\u003eAn Open Secret\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the history of male same-sex companionship is much queerer indeed.” * Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality *\u003cbr\u003e“Syrett escorts us into a world of wealth and privilege and creatively examines the decades-long intimacy of Allerton and Gregg. Filled with surprising revelations, Syrett’s account offers a new angle on the forms that queer life and love has taken in the past.” * John D’Emilio, author of Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives *\u003cbr\u003e“Syrett has crafted an eye-opening and engaging narrative, making a provocative contribution to queer history in his assertion that Allerton and Gregg may have had a relationship akin to both\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003emarriage and father to son—and that the two are not mutually exclusive. The story of this moneyed conservative couple disturbingly reveals how the privileged found community and refuge in open and secretive ways during a time of heightened homophobia.” * Amy Sueyoshi, author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAn Open Secret \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautifully written, powerful account of queer domesticity, sympathetically humane but never simplistically celebratory of its subjects. Syrett deftly situates his biography in a broader history of twentieth-century LGBTQ communities and culture, offering a hot new take on the expansive queerness that defined some same-sex relationships before the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.” * Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands: A Trans History *\u003cbr\u003e\"With previous books on the history of white college fraternities and the history of child marriage in the United States, Nicholas Syrett has a reputation for selecting fresh topics and conducting sound research and analysis. Adept with context, he has an impressive way of seeing topics, situations, and individuals in their singularity and as a means of exploring broad cultural themes. \u003ci\u003eAn Open Secret\u003c\/i\u003e continues Syrett’s tradition of originality, attention to context, and rigorous analysis. The book is rich in ideas gracefully expressed.\" * Journal of the History of Sexuality *\u003cbr\u003e\"Syrett’s portrait of Allerton and Gregg is a masterful intervention into both family history and the history of queerness.\" * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Allerton Roots\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Robert Allerton’s Queer Aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 Travel and Itinerant Homosexuality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 Becoming Father and Son\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Lord of a Hawaiian Island\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 Queer Domesticity in Illinois and Hawai‘i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Legally Father and Son\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: John Wyatt Gregg Allerton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732913959255,"sku":"9780226638744","price":78.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226638744.jpg?v=1719998928"},{"product_id":"underdogs-9780226761107","title":"Underdogs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What might we learn about queer studies by exploring its intellectual debts to midcentury social scientists’ interest in underdogs, underworlds, and the dynamics of stigma? Heather Love’s provocative and defamiliarizing analysis asks us to see queer studies—its limitations and its transformational possibilities—anew. A critical intellectual history, teeming with ideas and unlikely engagements.” * Regina Kunzel, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnderdogs \u003c\/i\u003eis a well-crafted, subtle, and beautifully written foray into the worlds of mid-twentieth century social science by a humanities scholar who uncovers, in the fine details of descriptive empirical research, the largely unrecognized precursors of today’s queer studies. With keen focus, Love reveals new possibilities for scholarly, ethical, and political commitments to the defense of outcasts and outsiders. Love makes an impassioned claim that humanists and social scientists need one another—and need to set aside the tenacious methodological dogmas that keep them apart.” * Steven Epstein, Northwestern University *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnderdogs \u003c\/i\u003eclarifies how the social science of deviance, like the queer theory that superseded it, depended on the figure of the outsider. Love asks queer theory to take social science \u003ci\u003emethodologies\u003c\/i\u003e, especially ‘underdog methods,’ seriously. At their best, these methods promise to keep queer theory open to surprise and alert to the potentialities of everyday life.” * Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis *\u003cbr\u003e\"Heather Love’s \u003ci\u003eUnderdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Chicago Press) is an intervention into the field of queer studies. But it is also an important work of intellectual history, tracing a surprising new genealogy that locates the origins of 1990s ‘queer theory’ not in literary studies, but in mid-20th-century empirical social research. It will appeal to readers invested in the nascent effort to historicise queer studies, but also to those interested in the history of the social sciences.\" * History Today *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnderdogs \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to rethink Queer Theory's ideological contributions through an excavation of the field's unacknowledged predecessors in the postwar social sciences. . . . [Love's] lucid prose and well-grounded interpretations make \u003ci\u003eUnderdogs \u003c\/i\u003ea book that should interest readers who are immersed in Queer Theory and those who are not at all.\" * Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnderdogs \u003c\/i\u003epresents a thorough argument for queer theorists to understand the way their problematic forebearers have left indelible marks on the field. . . . \u003ci\u003eUnderdogs \u003c\/i\u003epresents a careful, close reading of deviance studies, and invites theorists and scholars to reconsider their intellectual heritage.\" * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book concisely addresses the modern queer movement as Love challenges readers to critically consider that holding on to what is most valuable in queer critique may mean letting go of what is not... Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book has important implications for social work and social work education.\" * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnderdogs\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously researched study of postwar social scientific writing and its\u003cbr\u003e founding influence on queer studies. Its focus on method provides a potentially productive way to bring questions of politics and ethics back into a field that has lost\u003cbr\u003e much of its social and theoretical momentum since the late 1990s. Moreover, the\u003cbr\u003e sustained critique of the liberal humanist claim to integral subjectivity forms a timely\u003cbr\u003e intervention at the current moment, when younger generations increasingly appear\u003cbr\u003e invested in the type of sexual and gender identitarianism that both postwar social science\u003cbr\u003e and queer theory, in however diverging ways, have so persistently been trying to\u003cbr\u003e overhaul. For this reason alone,\u003ci\u003e Underdogs\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and important achievement.\" * American Literary History Online *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnderdogs\u003c\/i\u003e offers a thoughtful and clear analysis. . .  a first step in recognizing and untangling queer ideals for a more complete intellectual history on queer thought.\" * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Introduction: Beginning with Stigma 1 The Stigma Archive 2 Just Watching 3 A Sociological Periplum 4 Doing Being Deviant Afterword: The Politics of Stigma Acknowledgments Notes Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732919824727,"sku":"9780226761107","price":21.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226761107.jpg?v=1719998951"},{"product_id":"a-drag-queens-guide-to-life-9780241543580","title":"A Drag Queens Guide to Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe perfect gift for Bimini and Drag Race fans!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''MAGIC! 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It was only through discovering the art of drag that she began to fight back against those preconceptions, and understand that she had the power to define herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Drag Queen''s Guide to Life, \u003c\/i\u003eBimini tells the story of how drag took her from the brink of self-destruction to become a gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based superstar. Drawing on her own experience as a nonbinary person in a binary world, as well as inspirational stories from history, politics, pop culture and fashion, she uses all her wit, charm and kindness to show us how to lead the lives we wish we could lead, through the life-changing magic of dragging up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_______________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Radical, life-affirming, and utterly important for this time'' Riyadh Khalaf\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A very important read'' Gottmik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''She''s a superstar'' Kathy Burke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''You will always be our winner'' Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A force of nature'' James Acaster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times Bestseller, October 2021\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'MAGIC! A fun, fierce, honest origin story \u003c\/b\u003eof how to drag yourself up out of trouble and become an icon' -- Katherine Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Eye-opening, intelligent, thoughtful\u003c\/b\u003e as well as sassy and surprising -\u003cb\u003e a must read'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lorraine Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book does many things, it educates, explains, describes and shares personal experiences, but all of that goodness is wrapped up in a beautiful layer of genuine kindness and care for the reader,\u003c\/b\u003e who is possibly, young, coming out and in some way or another exploring gender. \u003cb\u003eFull of wit, wisdom and warmth'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Juno Roche, author of Trans Power and Queer Sex\u003cbr\u003e'Bimini has written a book that mixes the personal, political, humour and glamour that surrounds them. \u003cb\u003eA triumph for UK queer culture, \u003c\/b\u003ethis book welcomes their new audience in to the queer present and past, with a clear argument for a gender fluid future. It felt like it was \u003cb\u003epart diary entry, part history lecture and part recording from a real good chat in a smoking area in East London - the best combination for a book!'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Travis Alabanza, award winning writer, performer and theatre maker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Seeing Bimini take the world by storm with her authenticity, power and brilliance is truly a delight. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelease the Beast\u003c\/i\u003e is quintessential Bimini, hitting the nail on the head with her irreverent wit and infectious personality. \u003cb\u003eMs Boulash, you're definitely in the history books now!'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jamie Windust, author of In Their Shoes\u003cbr\u003e'Bimini is absolutely brilliant in the way they are able to deliver such importantly crucial lessons about sexuality and gender in such a relatable and understanding way. RELEASE THE BEAST is \u003cb\u003ea very important read \u003c\/b\u003efor so many of us out there who struggle with sexuality, gender, and anything in between!' -- Gottmik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautifully vulnerable and heartfelt journey from this down-to-earth high femme them. \u003c\/b\u003eBimini's radically real personal story reminds me to stay in my truth. \u003cb\u003eThis is a friendly reminder of self-love, and that your greatest gift to this world is to be yourself'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Fox Fisher, artist, film-maker \u0026amp; campaigner, author of Trans Teen Survival Guide\u003cbr\u003e'The Queen has spoken and here are their 10 Queer commandments. \u003cb\u003eRadical, life-affirming, and utterly important for this time\u003c\/b\u003e. 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The Empire of Queer Love: Berlin, Sometime between 1910 and 1914    3. Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments, International Settlement, Shanghai, May 1931   4. The Fight against Sexual Oppression is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru’s house, Allahabad, India, 1931    5. Are Homosexuals Like a Race? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority   6. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Theory of the Races   7. Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld’s Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Winter of 1930   8. Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 1932   9. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany, Manila, Philippines, Pasadena, California, United States, and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia   10. “And What about Women?”    11. The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932 to 1935   12. Li Shiu Tong’s Queer Masculinities: The Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s   13. 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Every responsible clinician and therapist who treats children and adolescents must read it – and read it carefully.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Abigail Shrier, journalist and author of ‘Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI highly recommend this sensitive and timely book to laypersons and professionals who are interested in learning about the complex, controversial, and contemporary subject of gender dysphoria. The authors, Susan and Marcus Evans, are open, compassionate, non-judgemental, and able to tolerate uncertainty in their understanding of those who experience gender dysphoria, are transitioning, or detransitioning. Their psychoanalytically oriented therapeutic model takes into account the individual’s development, family, culture, and political environment. I think the reader will especially appreciate the additional attention paid to the response of adolescents, emotionally unstable personality disordered people, and suicidal individuals to gender dysphoria.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Donald Campbell, past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and former Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytical Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGender dysphoria is increasingly being seen as a part of the spectrum of human diversity. This has resulted in a profoundly reductionistic and decontextualised clinical approach to gender distress. The authors draw on their extensive clinical experience to illustrate how gender dysphoria cannot be understood without understanding the developmental and relational contexts within which it arises. Their detailed case examples document the unique psychic landscapes of people suffering gender dysphoria, illuminating how the ubiquitous “born in the wrong body” conceptualisation can leave vast areas of historical and current lived experience unaddressed. The authors utilise a psychoanalytic lens to understand the experience of both patient and therapist in therapeutic work with gender dysphoria, in a way that is both accessible and insightful. This will be an invaluable reference for those seeking to go beyond the surface to work at depth with gender dysphoria. This work is remarkable for its bravery in presenting a perspective on gender dysphoria that is increasingly being excluded from social and clinical discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Roberto D’Angelo, Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles and President of the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis clear, excellent, clinically based account is very timely. It will help those who want to find their way through the confusing and often contentious writings on the subject of gender identity. It is well founded on experience of helping and working with people who do not feel at home in their bodies, particularly in regard to their sexual identity. They bring to the subject an unusual amount of clinical experience of this specialised psychological area. I strongly recommend it to those in the psychological, medical, and social fields, as well as to anyone who wants an informed account of a confused and confusing subject.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dr Ronald Britton, FRCPsych, Distinguished Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGender Dysphoria\u003c\/em\u003e is a thoughtful and timely contribution to the current controversy around gender dysphoria, how it is thought about and how it is treated when help is sought. […] The book would clearly be of interest to anyone working with this client group, but I also found it a valuable resource in terms of thinking about the adolescent state of mind. […] \u003cem\u003eGender Dysphoria\u003c\/em\u003e is an important book and a valuable contribution to the current debate. The book would grace the shelf of any trainee or practising therapist.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Helen Lowe, registered member of BACP – BACP Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal Jan 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What distinguishes the transgender from the gender dysphoric? Research in this area is not as advanced as we would like, and there is a dearth of good data. While this book does not reflect on gender dysphoric individuals for whom transition may be the right decision and have a positive outcome, it does add a great deal to the argument that careful thought is vital in the process of considering such a move. Transition may, or may not, be in the best interests of the individual. But maintaining a position of neutrality and enquiring curiosity, neither pro- nor anti-transition but pro-thought, is a point repeatedly made by the authors.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alan Colam, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2023, (104)(6):1139-1142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Preface by David Bell\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword by Stephen B. Levine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e Why have we written this book?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWO\u003cbr\u003e Developmental theory\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER THREE\u003cbr\u003e Psychoanalytic ideas regarding gender dysphoria\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FOUR\u003cbr\u003e Working with fixed states of mind\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FIVE\u003cbr\u003e The family\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SIX\u003cbr\u003e Adolescence\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN\u003cbr\u003e Complexities of delivering therapy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER EIGHT\u003cbr\u003e Detransitioners\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER NINE\u003cbr\u003e The link between suicidal ideation and gender\u003cbr\u003e dysphoria\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TEN\u003cbr\u003e The link between emotionally unstable personality disorder and gender dysphoria in mental health settings\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER ELEVEN\u003cbr\u003e Co-morbid mental health issues and gender dysphoria\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWELVE\u003cbr\u003e The societal, cultural and political environment\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karnac Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742688031063,"sku":"9781912691784","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781912691784.jpg?v=1720062439"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-binary-essays-on-gender-9781912691876","title":"Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe increase in the number of non-binary children and adults in our society raises important treatment questions as well as much controversy. It seems essential that analysts and candidates grapple with the challenges this change in society presents. As we struggle in our psychoanalytic societies to diversify our membership and broaden our understanding of difference, this collection offers an opportunity for further discussion and study of one of the most important issues of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe opening essay by editor Shari Thurer provides a clear overview of recent cultural changes and the evolution of thinking about gender identification by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Next is an autobiographical essay by long-term non-binary individual Robin Haas plus a clinical reflection on Haas’ contribution by Rita Teusch. A recent account of an individual becoming non-binary from Francesca Spence is followed by the reactions of their parents, L. Harry Spence and Robin Ely. After that are psychoanalytic thoughts about the body and gender by Malkah Notman and reflections on gender from Dan Jacobs. The book ends with an extensive bibliography on the subjects of transsexuality and non-binary gender by Oren Gozlan\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond the Binary: Essays on Gender\u003c\/em\u003e introduces readers to current ideas about gender fluidity and choice, as well as giving voice to those who have chosen to be non-binary. This is a must-read for all practising clinicians that will help broaden their perspective on this growing issue.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis is the fourth publication sponsored by the Library Committee of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the first published by Phoenix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Gender is always arriving, and psychoanalysts seem always to be chasing its coattails. Most often this chase has been an effort to corral gender: to capture, categorize, and conclude. \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Binary\u003c\/em\u003e – a collection of essays written as history, memoir, guide, critique, bibliography – works to move past the capture of categories. This monograph is possessed of a beguiling intimacy that engages the reader to rethink gender, gendered embodiment, and the analytic enterprise in listening to gender, its vicissitudes, and discontents.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ken Corbett, Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Beyond The Binary is a deeply personal and beautiful collection of reflections about contemporary understandings of gender in the psychoanalytic community. Eloquently written and accessible to all who are curious, it impresses through its inclusivity and compelling engagement between the reader and its authors.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dr Daniel Anderson, psychiatrist and group analyst, author of 'The Body of the Group: Sexuality and Gender in Group Analysis'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Psychoanalysis originated within a nineteenth-century, binary view conflating sexuality with gender. In this matrix, Freud hypothesized a biological, drive-driven, cross-cultural universal theory of mind. Times have changed. Today’s nontraditional gender presentations instead rely on individual subjectivities that call into question universalizing, cisnormative beliefs. These new clinical presentations also challenge psychoanalysts to move beyond procrustean developmental theories, theories that all too frequently lead to countertransferential impositions of therapists’ subjectivity onto patients. \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Binary\u003c\/em\u003e offers a good introduction for therapists wishing to rethink what they think they know about gender and how it affects their clinical practices.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jack Drescher, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Adjunct Professor, New York University, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eRita Teusch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1. Psychoanalysis Meets They\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eShari Thurer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2. 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Transsexuality Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eOren Gozlan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karnac Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742688620887,"sku":"9781912691876","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781912691876.jpg?v=1720062440"},{"product_id":"data-feminism-9780262547185","title":"Data Feminism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. 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In \u003ci\u003eAtmospheres of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans\/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. In calling for trans\/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eric A. 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Stanley's queer and trans stories rise beyond assimilation, honoring our gorgeous survival and refusals as resistance.” -- Tourmaline, artist, activist, and writer\u003cbr\u003e\"A must read for those interested in dismantling systems of oppression and in trans\/queer liberation. Essential. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.\" -- A. N. 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Lothians book is a marvel and will, I promise, never get old. -- Jack Halberstam,author of In A Queer Time and Place\u003cbr\u003eLothian's central concept of old futuresthe cast-off remains of speculations pastis both entertaining fodder and theoretically rich terrain for making queer theory new again. Theres something wonderfully bold about the books willingness to let \u0026amp; the future become concrete by turning to its many past versions, bringing them to light as commentary on where we are, and are not, now. -- Elizabeth Freeman,author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories\u003cbr\u003eLothian does something else entirely and opens up a new vantage point on the future by looking at it sideways, from outside its own timeline. 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With roots in both psychoanalytic and academic worlds, Langer provides clinicians with new ways of theorizing gender that both benefit from these traditions and push them forward. -- Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA, LGBTQ psychiatrist and writer (Trans Bodies Trans Selves \/ \"You're in the Wrong Bathroom!\" and 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions\u003cbr\u003eThis book will be essential to both new and seasoned clinicians working with transgender communities.  Langer expands our understanding of transgender experience from an interdisciplinary approach.  The in-depth chapters of trauma, sex and development are a unique examinations of these clinical issues and their relation to trans experience.  The theory and practice in this book contributes to clinical psychology, trans studies, consciousness studies, sex therapy and trans health. -- Dr. Lin Fraser, EdD WPATH Past President Co-Chair- Global Education Initiative\u003cbr\u003eS.J. 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I'll be highly recommending this book for years to come. -- Ash Palmisciano, TV Actor and Speaker\u003cbr\u003eFinn has given us a gift. A timely companion on the journey to advocate for ones own pleasure, hone the hoop jumping skills needed to medically affirm ones gender,  and to nurture the community needed to raise a penis! -- Dr. Liam “Captain” Snowdon, Genderqueerdo \u0026amp; Co-founder Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education\u003cbr\u003eA grippingly in-depth and honest account of a process that's rarely been told so openly before. Radical, honest and timely. -- Fox Fisher - Artist, film maker and campaigner\u003cbr\u003eAn engrossing testimony to transformation and learning to love your body...told with warmth and insight. -- Gscene\u003cbr\u003eThe insightful, witty and deeply honest book that so many of us on a similar path have been hungry for. -- Phallo.net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. 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