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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By Jeanette Winterson ,

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Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Gender Queer

By Maia Kobabe ,

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It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book about Gender Identity
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It Feels Good to Be Yourself

By Theresa Thorn , Noah Grigni (illustrator) ,

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Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France
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Before Trans

By Rachel Mesch ,

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My Sister, Daisy
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My Sister, Daisy

By Adria Karlsson , Linus Curci (illustrator) ,

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Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story about Gender and Friendship
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Introducing Teddy

By Jessica Walton , Dougal MacPherson (illustrator) ,

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Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
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Spellbound

By Bishakh Som ,

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Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
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Life Isn't Binary

By Meg-John Barker , Alex Iantaffi ,

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Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
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Diary of a Misfit

By Casey Parks ,

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Let's Talk about It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human
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Let's Talk about It

By Erika Moen , Matthew Nolan ,

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Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up
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Wait, What?

By Heather Corinna , Isabella Rotman ,

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Crossing: A Transgender Memoir
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Crossing

By Deirdre N. McCloskey ,

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The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes
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The Gender Creative Child

By Diane Ehrensaft ,

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Parity of the Sexes
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Parity of the Sexes

By Sylviane Agacinski , Lisa Walsh (translator) ,

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Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender
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Apartheid of Sex

By Martine Rothblatt ,

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Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
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Just One of the Guys?

By Kristen Schilt ,

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Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
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Gender and Our Brains

By Gina Rippon ,

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Monsieur D'Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade
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Monsieur D'Eon is a Woman

By Gary Kates ,

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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
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Gender Outlaw

By Kate Bornstein ,

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Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
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Tomboy

By Liz Prince ,

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Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different
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Tomboy

By Lisa Selin Davis ,

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Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and Beyond
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Transgender Warriors

By Leslie Feinberg ,

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Transgender History
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Transgender History

By Susan Stryker ,

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Histories of the Transgender Child
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Histories of the Transgender Child

By Julian Gill-Peterson ,

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Tomboy Survival Guide
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Tomboy Survival Guide

By Ivan Coyote ,

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The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
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The First Man-Made Man

By Pagan Kennedy ,

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The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity
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The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi

By Laurie A. Wilkie ,

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Roberta Cowell's Story
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Roberta Cowell's Story

By Roberta Cowell ,

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Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic
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Caribbean Pleasure Industry

By Mark Padilla ,

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It's So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families
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It's So Amazing! A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families

By Robie H. Harris , Michael Emberley (illustrator) ,

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You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things
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You Know, Sex

By Cory Silverberg , Fiona Smyth (illustrator) ,

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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
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Politics of Piety

By Saba Mahmood ,

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Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism
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Profit and Pleasure

By Rosemary Hennessy ,

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Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
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Testo Junkie

By Beatriz Preciado ,

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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
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Man Alive

By Thomas Page McBee ,

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Roving Pack
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Roving Pack

By Sassafras Lowrey ,

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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
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Evolution's Rainbow

By Joan Roughgarden ,

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Fine: A Comic About Gender
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Fine

By Rhea Ewing ,

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Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig
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Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures

By Joao Florencio ,

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Occult Features Of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples
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Occult Features Of Anarchism

By Erica Lagalisse ,

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Lost in TransNation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness
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Lost in TransNation

By Miriam Grossman ,

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The Abolition of Sex: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls
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The Abolition of Sex

By Kara Dansky ,

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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
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I Heard Her Call My Name

By Lucy Sante ,

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Video Games Have Always Been Queer
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Video Games Have Always Been Queer

By Bonnie Ruberg ,

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Gender as Love: A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds
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Gender as Love

By Fellipe Do Vale , Beth Jones ,

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Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
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Technologies of the Gendered Body

By Anne Balsamo ,

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Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
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Material Girls

By Kathleen Stock ,

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The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
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The End of Gender

By Debra Soh ,

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The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust
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The Generation of Postmemory

By Marianne Hirsch ,

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Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World
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Seek

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Sex/Gender
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Sex/Gender

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Female Masculinity
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Female Masculinity

By Jack Halberstam ,

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A History of Virility
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A History of Virility

By Keith Cohen (translator) , Georges Vigarello (editor) , Alain Corbin (editor) , Jean-Jacques Courtine (editor)

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Beyond Magenta
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Beyond Magenta

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