Topic: Books & Authors

Check out our bookstore, tons of new titles have been added for your enjoyment!

Newest additions are:

Identity Envy Wanting to Be Who We're Not
Creative Nonfiction by Queer Writers Edited by Jim Tushinski, Jim Van Buskirk and James C. Hormel

And:
Transvestites: The Erotic Drive To Cross Dress (1910)
by Magnus Hirschfeld - translated by Michael A. Lombardi

Check out our bookstore, tons of new titles have been added for your enjoyment! Newest additions are "WHIPPING GIRL: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity, by Julia Serano". And, "Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Edited by Matt Bernstein".

I am a transgender. I have lived a life of 72 years as a woman in the body of a man. Norma?s Voice is the story of that life.

http://www.pdpublishing.com/normasvoiceendpage.htm

Helen Boyd will be speaking on the subject of Trans Identities and Cultural Politics at two upcoming colleges:

Set in the near-future, The Rights of Numbers is a political science-fiction novel. The story centers on an Alliance of computer entrepreneurs who hire mercenaries for a desperate struggle to stop a computer monopoly from corrupting the American government.

With rumors spreading about a planned military action against a young democracy, can the Alliance expose Enivid Technologies as the only party that has anything to gain in a bloody conflict over media rights?

More information, as well as the full-length non-DRMed eBook is downloadable from the author's site.

The Rights of Numbers is Brenda Make's first fiction release. She is the author of the work in progress: Saving Throw, the Genderrain Project.

The IFGE Synchronicity Bookstore

is proud to announce that we are now stocking Denaë Doyle's
series of instrutional DVD's on Sensual Feminine Movement. Denaë
Doyle was recently interviewd by the San Francisco Chronicle,
read all about it here

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004.

Review by Katrina C. Rose

Most of us are aware of the concept of ?the big lie?: make sure it, whatever ?it? may be, is repeated enough, and it becomes accepted as true whether or not it has any basis in reality. Another type of big lie is the assertion of something so preposterous, yet so simplistic, that the perfectly accurate yet equally simplistic response/refutation sounds even more preposterous than the initial lie?necessitating extensively-researched answers presented in laborious, boring academic formats that most people can?t follow and, as such, are ignored.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004.

Review by Marisa Richmond, Ph.D.

Transsexuality has become an increasingly popular topic of study by many therapists. Many support groups are contacted, often by graduate students seeking to expand their knowledge in a field that is not well-understood by outsiders. More and more, members of the transgender community are speaking for themselves through books and journals, produced both for the transgender community and various professional communities. One new entry in this field is by J. Michael Bailey, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern Univer-sity. Bailey?s contribution to the field is, however, marked by numerous snide remarks about transsexuals and shows an incredible disdain for the community he purports to support while simultaneously using very poor methodology in making his claims.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004.

J. Michael Bailey is Chair of the Department of Psychology and Professor at Chicago?s prestigious Northwestern University.

A Ph.D. graduate of Louisiana?s Baylor University, he is trained in clinical psychology and known as a sexologist. The bulk of his research has concerned the behavioral and vocal mannerisms of gay men. This year, Bailey made a play for the big time?if one considers the talk show and lecture circuit the big time?via a book published under the imprint of the prestigious National Academies of Science. The title is The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #105, Spring 2004.

Dress Codes Review by Spencer Bergstedt
Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods?My Mother?s, My Father?s, and Mine. (2002). Noelle Howey, Picador USA/St. Martin?s Press, 332 pages, $24.