Showing posts with label Gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gender. Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2009

Transgender

First reference question I've ever had about transgender. Sitting at the Reference Desk in late afternoon, I was asked for books on transgender. The patron spoke softly. For a moment I was unsure I'd heard her question, or perhaps was nonplussed, but, momentarily, my librarian self engaged.

I searched for the term transgender itself, but the only result was an art book:
Mirror images : women, surrealism, and self-representation [Q 704.042 M]. It includes this entry: Whitney Chadwick -- "Vous pour moi?" : Marcel Duchamp and transgender coupling, but that was not what she was looking for; rather, she wanted biographical works. I found two that worked:

Colapinto, John. (2000). As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl. New York: HarperCollins.

Scholinski, Daphne. (1997). The last time I wore a dress. New York: Riverhead Books.