List of Movies with Androgynes or Androgyny as Their Theme
last updated 3/20/07
Alexander, Jonathan, and Karen Yescavage, eds. Bisexuality andTransgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others. Binghamton, NY:
Harrington Park Press, 2004. ISBN: 1-56023-287-0 softback
1-56023-286-2 hardback www.HaworthPress.com [A monograph
published simultaneously as the Journal of Bisexuality Vol. 3,
Nos. 3/4.] Review by Charlotte Cooper
Alexander, Rhys. Masculine Deficit, Cause of Homosexual Orientation,
Androgyny & Social Collapse. Las Vegas, NV.: Rhys Alexander, Inc.,
1996. Softcover.
Amato, Toni and Mary Davies, eds. Pinned Down by Pronouns. Jamaica
Plain, MA: Conviction Books, 2004. ISBN 0-9727027-1-7 [This book
was written and edited almost entirely by genderqueers, and there is
a good article online about its creation and contents. Since it is
from a small independent publisher, you must order the book directly
(and should you decide to do so, please mention Androgyne Online).]
Bazin, Nancy Topping. Virginia Woolf and the Androgynous Vision. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, May 1973. ISBN 0813507359
Bell-Metereau, Rebecca. Hollywood Androgyny: Including Films of the Late
Eighties and Nineties. New York, NY: Columbia University Press,
1993. Trade Paperback. ISBN 0231084676
Bem, Sandra Lipsitz. The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on
Sexual Inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
Hardback ISBN: 0300056761 Paperback ISBN: 0300061633
Bernstein Sycamore, Matt, ed. Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of
Gender and Conformity. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, November 6,
2006. ISBN-10: 1580051847 ISBN-13: 978-1580051842 [Editor MattBernstein Sycamore frequently goes under the name Mattilda.]
Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. New
York: Routledge, 1994.
Bornstein, Kate. My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real
Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely. New York:
Routledge, 1998.
Brisson, Luc, and Janet Lloyd. Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and
Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Berkeley: CA:
University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0520223918 paperback
ISBN 0520231481 hardback
Brown, Lester B. Two Spirit People: American Indian Lesbian Women andGay Men. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1997.
Bullough, Bonnie, Vern L. Bullough, and James Elias, eds. Gender
Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Heresy, Androgyny,
Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free
Expression, Sex Change Surgery, ... Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books,
1997. ISBN: 1573921246 hardback [inludes a paper on Akhenaten]
Bullough, Vern L., and Bonnie Bullough. Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. 383 pp.
ISBN 0-8122-1431-5 paperback ISBN 0-8122-3163-5 hardback
[Library of Congress Call Number: HQ77.B785 1993] [A core work in
the gender theory canon.] Relevant obituary of Vern L. Bullough
Bunnell, Jacinta and Irit Reinheimer. girls will be boys will be girls
will be . . .: coloring book. http://www.girlsnotchicks.com,
June 20, 2004. How to order a copy. Review pages: 12
Burke, Phyllis. Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female.
Anchor (Reprint edition), August 1997. Paperback ASIN: 038547718X
Hardback ASIN: 0385477171 ["gender independent" is a term used here]
Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN
0415969239 paperback ISBN 0415969220 hardcover Reviews: 12
[See also Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble, 1989, 1990, 1999.]
Butler, Pamela E. Self-assertion For Women: A Guide To Becoming
Androgynous (Fully Human). NY: Harper & Row, 1976. ISBN 0062501208
trade paperback
Cohen-Kettenis, Peggy T. and Friedemann Pfäfflin. Transgenderism and
Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices. Sage
Publications, February 2003. ISBN 076191711X paperback
ISBN 0761917101 hardcover
Colegrave, Sukie. The Spirit Of The Valley: Androgyny and Chinese
Thought. London: Virago, 1979. Paperback.
Conner, Randy P. Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections Between
Homoeroticism and the Sacred. HarperSanFrancisco, January 1993.
ISBN 0062509039 hardback ["A magnificent cross-cultural study,
Blossom of Bone weaves together myriad accounts of gender-variant
shamans, priests, magicians, and artists throughout the ages who have,
in different ways, embodied the interrelationship of homoeroticism,
androgyny and the sacred." -- www.abebooks.com] Reviews: 12
Conner, Randy P. Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections Between
Homoeroticism and the Sacred. San Francisco: Harpercollins, 1993.
ISBN 0062502573 paperback
Cook, Ellen Piel. Psychological Androgyny. NY: Pergamon Press, 1985.
ASIN 0080316131 hardback
Cook, Ellen Piel. Psychological Androgyny. Pearson Allyn & Bacon,
June 1985. ISBN 0080316123 paperback
Critchlow, Keith. The Soul as Sphere & Androgyne. Ipswich: Golgonooza
Press, 1980.
Critchlow, Keith. Soul as Sphere & Androgyne. Phanes Press, January
1985. ISBN 0933999283 paperback
Devor, Holly. Gender Blending; Confronting the Limits of Duality.
Indiana University Press, October 1989. Paperback ISBN: 0253205336
Hardback ISBN: 0253316375
Eliade Mircea. J. M. Cohen, trans. The Two and the One. New York:
Harper and Row, 1969. [The original title in French was
Méphistophelès et L'androgyne.]
Eliade Mircea. J. M. Cohen, trans. The Two and the One. University
of Chicago Press, September 1979. ISBN 0226203891 trade paperback
["An important work for the analysis of the coincidentia
oppositorum, the coincidence of opposites, or binary oppositions in
the history of religious ideas. Androgyny is explored as are
cosmogony and eschatology, the birth and death of the cosmos or
worldview."]
Eliade, Mircea. Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious
Myth and Symbol. NY: Sheed and Ward, 1965. Hardback.
Epstein, Julia, and Kristina Straub, eds. Body Guards: The Cultural
Politics of Gender Ambiguity. New York, NY: Routledge, November
1991. ASIN: 0415903890 paperback
Ettner, Randi, and George R. Brown. Gender Loving Care: A Guide to
Counseling Gender-Variant Clients. W.W. Norton & Company, May
1999. ISBN 0393703045 hardback
Faithfull, Theodore J. Mystery Of The Androgyne: Three Papers on the
Theory and Practice of Psycho-Analysis. London, England: Forum
Publishing of London, 1938. 8vo: over 7¾" x 9¾" tall, 79 pages.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about
Women and Men. New York: Basic Books, 1985. 258 pages.
ISBN 0-465-04790-4 hardback
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about
Women and Men. New York: Basic Books, 1992. 2nd Rev edition.
320 pages. ISBN 0-465-04792-0 paperback
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the
Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
paperback ISBN 0465077145 hardback ASIN 0465077137
Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc
to Dennis Rodman. Beacon Press, June 1997. ISBN 0807079413 paper
ISBN 0807079405 hardback
Galatians and Gender Trouble: Primal Androgyny and the First Century
Origins of a Feminist Dilemma (Protocol of the Colloquy of the
Center for Hermeneutical Studies, New series, No 1). Center for
Hermeneutical Studies, February 1996. ASIN 0892420650 paperback
Gamson, Joshua. The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the
Seventies in San Francisco. Henry Holt and Co., March 2005
ISBN: 0805072500 hardback [from pp. 158-59: "When he felt like a
woman, he was flattered to be mistaken for one; when he felt like
a man, he was flattered to be mistaken for one of those, too."]
Short Sylvester biographies: 12345
Gamson, Joshua. The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the
Seventies in San Francisco. Picador USA, January 2006.
ISBN: 0312425694 paperback
Goldberg, Ellen. The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanarisvara in Indian
and Feminist Perspective. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2002. Softcover ISBN 079145326X, hardback ISBN 0791453251.
[Ardhanarisvara is a Hindu composite deity of Shiva's male and
female aspects.]
Graham, Lanier. Duchamp & Androgyny: Art, Gender, and Metaphysics.
Berkeley, California: No-Thing Press, July 15, 2003. ISBN:
0-9726966-0-1 hardback limited edition of 1000.
Haynes, Felicity and Tarquam McKenna, eds. Unseen Genders: Beyond the
Binaries. (Eruptions Vol. 12) New York: Peter Lang Publishing,
February 2001. ISBN 0820450243 paperback
Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Toward a Recognition of Androgyny. NY: Harper
Colophon, 1974. Paperback. [with material on berdache and hijra]
Heilbrun, Carolyn G. [Cross, Amanda (Pseudonym)]. Towards Androgyny:
Aspects of Male and Female in Literature. London: Gollancz, 1973.
Hardback.
Herdt, Gilbert, editor. Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual
Dimorphism in Culture and History. Zone Books, April 7, 1994.
ISBN: 0942299817
Highberger, Craig. Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of
Jackie Curtis. New York: Chamberlain Bros., Book & DVD edition,
May 31, 2005. ISBN: 1596090790 Compare with the film. [About
Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis. Curtis considered hirself to be
neither man nor woman. The lyrics to the Lou Reed song, "Walk on
the Wild Side," mention Holly (Woodlawn), Candy (Darling), Little
Joe (Dallesandro), and Jackie (Curtis), by name.] This book comes
with a free DVD of the film, Superstar in a Housedress (which is
not available on DVD separately), that contains nearly 30 minutes
of extra footage not shown in the theatrical release.
Hinz, Evelyn J. The Lure of the Androgyne. University of Manitoba,
1997. Softcover. [THE LURE OF THE ANDROGYNE, Mosaic (a journal
for the interdisciplinary study of literature), Vol. 30, No. 3,
September 1997. Paperback.]
Hoeveler, Diane. Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within. Penn State,
1990. ISBN 0271007044 hardback
Jacobs, Sue-Ellen, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, eds. Two-spirit
People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and
Spirituality. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
ISBN 0252023447 hardback ISBN 0252066456 paperback
Kaldera, Raven. Hermaphrodeities: The Transgender Spirituality Workbook.
Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation, 2002. Trade Paperback ISBN:
1-4010-2719-9, Hardback ISBN: 1-4010-2718-0, eBook (online) ISBN:
1-4010-2720-2.
Kaplan, Alexandra G. and Joan P. Bean, eds. Beyond Sex-Role
Stereotypes: Readings Toward a Psychology of Androgyny. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Softcover.
Kaplan, Alexandra G. Psychological Androgyny, Further Considerations: A
Special Issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly. New York, NY: Human
Sciences Press, August 1979. ISBN 0877054185 softcover
Kaplan, Alexandra G. Psychology and Sex Roles: An Androgynous Perspective.
Scott Foresman & Co., May 1980. ISBN 0316482722 paperback
Kessler, Suzanne J. Lessons from the Intersexed. Rutgers University
Press, 1998. ISBN 0813525306 paperback ISBN 0813525292 hardback
Kimbrough, Robert. Shakespeare and the Art of Human Kindness: The Essay
Toward Androgyny. Humanity Books, October 1992. Reprint edition.
ISBN 1573925128 hardcover
Kulick, Don. Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture Among Brazilian
Transgendered Prostitutes. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 1998. ISBN 0226460991 hardback ISBN 0226461009 paperback
Reviews: 1234 [Travesti are males who ostensibly live as women
and are augmented with silicone and/or hormones, yet they do not
consider themselves to be women but gay men. They may or may not
be transgenderists or androgynes, but they are definitely (a)
third gender(ed).]
Kryder, Rowena Pattee. Song to Thee, Divine Androgyne: Seven Steps to
Heaven. Millbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1973. ISBN 0912310405
Paperback. [also under Pattee, Rowena.]
Lang, Sabine. Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native
American Cultures. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ace Books, 1969. ["On a
planet where people are of no gender -- or both" -- amazon.com
This is an all-time science fiction classic, and won both the Hugo
Award and the Nebula Award in the year of its release. Compare
this book with Shadow Man by Melissa Scott.]
Lester, Toni P., ed. Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality: Charting
the Connections. University of Wisconsin Press, February 3, 2003.
ISBN 0299181448 paperback ISBN: 0299181405 hardback
Lev, Arlene Istar. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for
Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families. Binghamton,
NY: Harrington Park Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-7890-2117-X softcover
0-7890-0708-8 hardback www.HaworthPress.com
Lorber, Judith. Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press
(Reprint edition), August 1995. Paperback ISBN 0300064977
Hardback ASIN 0300058071
MacLeod, Catriona. Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from
Winckelmann to Keller. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press,
1998. ISBN 0814325394
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey.Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach.
Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, May 2001. ISBN 0829814221 hardback
Reviews: 123
Nanda, Serena. Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations. Prospect
Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1999. ISBN 1-57766-074-9 paperback
Nanda, Serena. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont,
CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998. Second Edition. 208 Pages.
ISBN 0534509037 paperback
Nanda, Serena. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India (Wadsworth
Modern Anthropology Library). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing
Co., 1990. First Edition. 170 pages. ISBN 0534122043 paperback
Nestle, Joan, Riki Wilchins and Clare Howell, eds. Genderqueer: Voicesfrom Beyond the Sexual Binary. Los Angeles: Alyson Publications,
August 2002. ISBN 1555837301 [from Amazon.com: "Be forewarned,
though -- this is not a book for the easily offended, be you
straight, gay, queer, trans -- or not. If you need your own
feelings and ideas confirmed and validated, better to read something
else. A number of the authors are brutal in their honesty, coarse
in their language, and express disturbing opinions. For me, though,
'Genderqueer' was enlightening, stimulating, often hilarious, and
occasionally infuriating." -- Kathryn M Ottersten]
Offerman-Zuckerberg, Joan, ed. Gender in Transition: A New Frontier.
NY: Plenum Press, September 1989. ISBN: 0306431327 Hardback only.
["Twenty-seven contributions deal with gender in transition and
androgyny, new reproductive technologies, and future patterns,
concerns, and issues that humanity may face in the twenty-first
century." -- Book News, Inc.]
O'Flaherty, W. (Wendy Doniger). Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical
Beasts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
ISBN 0226618498 hardback
O'Keefe, Tracie. Sex, Gender and Sexuality. Sydney, NSW, Australia:
Extraordinary People Press, March 1999. ISBN 0952948222 paperback
O'Keefe, Tracie and Katrina Fox, eds. Finding the Real Me: True Tales of
Sex & Gender Diversity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (an imprint of
Wiley), April 2003. ISBN 0787965472 paperback
Olds, Linda E. Fully Human: How Everyone Can Integrate the Benefits
of Masculine and Feminine Sex Roles. Prentice Hall, November, 1981.
ISBN 0133322130 hardback
Pande, Alka. Ardhanarishvara -- The Androgyne: Probing the Gender
Within. New Delhi, India: Rupa & Co, 2004. ISBN 81-291-0464-4
Size: 13.2" x 8.8" Pages: 191 (Color Illus: 74, B & W illus: 42)
Cover Art. Reviews: 12
Parson, Jacquelynne E. Adolescence: Gateway to Androgyny. Michigan
Feminist Studies, June 1980. ISBN 9993146536
Pattanaik, Devdutt. The Man Who Was a Woman: And Other Queer Tales.
Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2001. ISBN 1560231815 paperback
Pattanaik, Devdutt. The Man Who Was a Woman: And Other Queer Tales.
Harrington Park Press, 2002. ISBN 1560231807 hardback
Pattee, Rowena. Song to Thee, Divine Androgyne: Seven Steps to
Heaven. Millbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1973. ISBN 0912310405
paperback. [also under Kryder, Rowena Pattee.]
Picard, Hymen W. J. Call of the Goddess -- Seven Lives of an Androgyne
New York: Vantage Press, 1992. Hardback.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. Firebrand Books, 1995. ISBN 1563410591
paperback Reviews: 1234
Preves, Sharon E. Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0813532299
paperback ISBN 0813532280 hardback
Queen, Carol and Lawrence Schimel, eds. PoMoSexuals: Challenging
Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality. San Francisco:
Cleis Press, 1997. ISBN 1573440744
Rado, Lisa. The Modern Androgyne Imagination: A Failed Sublime.
University Press of Virginia, 2000. ISBN 0813919797 hardback
Reddy, Gayatri. With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in
South India. Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality,
Gender, and Culture. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, July
2005. ISBN 0-226-70756-3 paperback ISBN 0-226-70755-5 hardback
Roscoe, Will. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North
America. Palgrave MacMillan, June 2000. ISBN 0312224796 paper
Roscoe, Will. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North
America. St. Martin's Press, March 1998. ISBN 0312175396 hard
Roscoe, Will. The Zuni Man-woman. Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico
University Press, 1991.
Rothblatt, Martine Aliana. The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the
Freedom of Gender. NY: Crown, February 1995. ISBN 051759997X
Rowe, J. Spencer. The Last of the Dodo's: Voice of the Two Spirit.
Morrisville, NC: Lulu, February 2005. 131 pages, 6.0 x 9.0 in.
ISBN: 1-4116-2358-4 paperback or download ["The only published
work about Two Spirit Native Americans by a Two Spirit Native
American."] Printed-on-demand or download only. Sample chapter:
"Hope for Tomorrow" (originally appeared in Reader Weekly:
Northland News, Arts, and Entertainment, Issue 284, Sept. 16, 2004)
Sargent, Alice G. The Androgynous Manager, Blending Male & Female
Management Styles For Today's Organization. New York: AMACOM
(American Management Association), 1981. ISBN 0814476015 hardback
Sargent, Alice G. Beyond Sex Roles. West Publishing, 1977.
ISBN 0829901043 hardback
Sargent, Alice G. Beyond Sex Roles. West Publishing, 1985.
ISBN 031485293X paperback
Scott, Melissa. Shadow Man. Tor Books, 1995. ISBN 0312858000 hardback
["transgender science fiction classic about a backwater planet
which recognizes only two genders while the rest of the civilized
galaxy recognizes five (ring any bells?)." -- from kersplebedeb.com
Compare with The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.]
Reviews: 123456 | Availability | Interview with Melissa Scott
Scott, Melissa. Shadow Man. Tor Books, 1996. ISBN 0312862067 paperback
Sharma, Satish Kumar. Hijras:the Labelled Deviants. New Delhi: Gian
Publishing House, January 1989. ISBN 8121202663 hardcover 151
pages. [aka Third Sex and Human Rights]
Simels, Steven. Gender Chameleons: Androgyny in Rock 'n Roll. Arbor
House Pub Co., May 1985 and New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1985.
ISBN 0877956944 paperback
Singer, June. Androgyny: The Opposities Within. A thorough
Investigation of the Subject, Full of Psychological and Spiritual
Insights. 2000. Soft Cover.
Singer, June. Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality. Garden
City, NJ: Doubleday, 1976. Hardback.
Stevens, Jennifer Anne. From Masculine to Feminine and All Points In
Between. Cambridge, MA: Different Path Press, 1990.
ISBN 0962626201
Stevenson, Warren. Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime. Cranberry,
New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1996.
ISBN 0-838-63668-3 hardback
Tanis, Justin Edward. Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and
Communities of Faith. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2003.
ISBN 0829815287 paperback
Veeder, William. Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny.
University of Chicago Press, November 1988. ISBN 0226852261
paperback
Vetterling-Braggin, Mary, ed. "Femininity," "Masculinity" and
"Androgyny": A Modern Philosophical Discussion. Totowa, NJ:
Littlefield, Adams, 1982. ISBN 0-8226-0399-3 softbound
0-8476-7070-8 hardback
Weil, Kari. Androgyny and the Denial of Difference. Virginia, 1992.
Trade paperback.
Wilchins, Riki. Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer. Los
Angeles: Alyson Publications, 1 August 2004. ISBN 1555837980
softback
Wilchins, Riki. Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender.
Ann Arbor, MI: Firebrand Books, September 1997. Paperback ISBN
1563410907 Hardback ASIN 1563410915
Wilhelm, Amara Das. Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex:
Understanding Homosexuality, Transgender Identity and Intersex
Conditions Through Hinduism. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation,
2004. 263 pages. ISBN 1-4134-3534-3 paperback ISBN 1-4134-6420-3
hardback ["'Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex' is a labor
of love, provided as a service to Sri Guru, Gauranga, and the
Vaishnavas to help promote all-inclusiveness and 'gay tolerance'
within the Hindu and Vaishnava faiths. All proceeds from the sale
of this book go directly to GALVA-108, Inc., a non-profit religious
organization, to further this cause."]
Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in
American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, October 1986.
ISBN 0807046027 hardback November 1988 ISBN 0807046116 paperback
Yadav, Neeta. Ardhanarisvara in Art and Literature. New Delhi: D.K.
Printworld, 2001. ISBN 81-246-0169-0. Hardback. [Ardhanarisvara
is a Hindu composite deity of Shiva's male and female aspects.]
Reviews: 123
Zolla, E. The Androgyne: Fusion of the Sexes. London: Thames and Hudson,
1981. ISBN 0500810281. Oversized softcover.
Zolla, Elemire. The Androgyne: Reconciliation of Male and Female. (The
Illustrated Library of Sacred Imagination.) NY: Crossroad Books,
1981. ISBN 0824500652 paperback ISBN 0824500601 hardcover
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Photography Books and Photoessays | back to topAllen, Mariette Pathy, photographer. The Gender Frontier. Heidelberg,
Germany: Kehrer Verlag, December 2003. ISBN: 3936636044 Hardback.
[Photographs and text by Mariette Pathy Allen, with essays by Grady
Turner, Riki Wilchins, Jamison Green, and Milton Diamond, in English
and German. Photographs and short texts re both F2Ms and M2Fs, as
well as queer youth. Allen asks the question, "What is the essence
of humanness beyond masculinity or femininity?"] Reviews: 12Roos, Daijna. Miroir Aux Androggynes [aka Miroir Aux Androgynes].
Tubingen, Germany: Konkursbuch, 1997 & 2000. ISBN 3887691059
hardback [The text is in German, French and English. The 1997
edition has 156 pages (110 b&w + 16 color), and the 2000 edition
has 208 pages.] Six photos from this bookUnwerth, Ellen von. Omahyra and Boyd. BPR Publishers, January 2005.
Hardcover, 120 pp. ISBN: 291417120X [The book's subjects,
Omahyra Mota and Boyd Holbrook, as photographed by former model
Ellen von Unwerth. Omahyra and Boyd look mostly androgynous in
this book (Omahyra does ordinarily, but Boyd tends not to).]
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Theses and Dissertations | back to top
Clay, Mary Negley. A study of the relationship between self-actualization
and psychological androgyny. State University of New York, College of
Arts and Science, 1979. (Masters thesis. Counseling and Psychological
Services.) ASIN: B0006XBOMY 48 pp.
Colten, Mary Ellen. A reconsideration of psychological androgyny: Self esteem,
social skills and expectations rather than sex role identification.
ASIN: B0006XHEB4
Detri, Ralph Anthony. A comparison of the androgyny scores of heterosexual,
bisexual and homosexual transvestites. ASIN: B0007AY00Y
Julsonnet, Sharon Kay. Androgyny and Its Relationship to the Anima andAnimus and Related Psychological Constructs. [A Dissertation
submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A and M
University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. August 1991.]
Sell, Ingrid M. (2001). Third gender: A Qualitative Study of the
Experience of Individuals Who Identify as Being Neither Man nor
Woman. [Doctoral Dissertation, Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology). UMI No. 3011299. 261 pages. Pricing information:
Unbound Paper (8.5" x 11") $38.00, Softbound (6.5" x 8.25") $69.00,
Hardbound (6.5" x 8.25") $85.00, Microfilm $56, Microfiche $56]
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Selected Articles | back to top
Meeks, W.A. "The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest
Christianity." History of Religions 13 (1974), 165-208.
Richter, Joannes. Die Kabbala in unserer Sprache. Web article.
http://joannes.richter.bei.t-online.de/Texte/kabba_D.htm
2000. [Translated from Homepage von Fries und Hans Richter: "The
Kabbala in our language journey in our linguistic area -- with a
description of the androgyne core in the most important words of
our language --" The English-language version of this article
(seen directly below) is not quite identical.]
Richter, J. (Joannes) W. The Cabala in Our Languages. Web article.
http://joannes.richter.bei.t-online.de/Texte/kabba_E.htm
2001. [see description above]
Robertson, Jennifer. "The Politics of Androgyny in Japan: Sexuality and
Subversion in the Theater and Beyond." American Ethnologist 19:3
(August 1992): pp. 419-43.
Sell, Ingrid. (2001). "Between the worlds: An investigation of Western
third gender." White Crane: A Journal of Gay Men's Spirituality.
Number 50, Fall, 2001, pp. 7-9. [re her dissertation]
Sell, Ingrid. (2001). "Not man, not woman: Psychospiritual
characteristics of a Western third gender." Journal of
Transpersonal Psychology 33 (1), pp. 16-36. [re her dissertation]
Wasserstrom, Steven M. "Uses of the Androgyne in the History of
Religions." Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses: Volume 27
Number 4 (1998). [Abstract: The image of the androgyne was used by
historians of religions Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin and Gershom
Scholem to refer symbolically to a totality beyond gender
differences. The androgyne was identified as perfect man by Eliade,
as angel by Corbin, as demon by Scholem (in his interpretation of
Walter Benjamin) and as the godhead by their common ancestor Goethe.
This article reflects on these uses of the androgyne as they
underwrote normative assumptions about the history of religions.
Attention is also paid to the uses of the androgyne in related
fields, especially fiction and philosophy, in order to understand
these expresssions of the androgyne in relation to the history of
religions under discussion here.] [This article is also the 12-page
Chapter 13 of the book, Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem,
Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos, by Steven M. Wasserstrom.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.
ISBN 0691005400 paperback ISBN 0691005397 hardback]
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Manga (Japanese comics) | back to top
Moto, Hagio. They Were 11. San Francisco, CA: Viz Comics, 1996, in four
issues. [Originally serialized in Bessatsu Shoujo, or Zen-In from
Petit Flower Comics in Japan in 1975. A science fiction whodunit
with a character of indeterminate gender named Frol. A shojo manga
(Japanese girls' comic book). Adapted into a really good anime
(Japanese animated film) in 1986.]
Moto, Hagio, Keiko Nishi and Shio Sato. Four Shojo Stories. San
Francisco, CA: Viz Communications, March 1996. ASIN: 1569310556
[A collection of four girls' comics stories (two by one author).
Contains the entirety of the They Were 11 manga. See above. This
book is out-of-print and usually expensive if found. Track down
the individual four manga issues, instead. eBAY is one source.]
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German-language Books|back to top
Universal Language Translators [Altavista is recommended]: http://www.babelfish.org/ [this link will open in a new window]
Currency Converter: http://www.xe.com/pca/ [this link will open in a new window]
Bock, Ulla und Dorothee Alfermann. Querelles, Bd.4, Androgynie:
Vielfalt der Möglichkeiten. Taschenbuch - 269 Seiten (1999)
Metzler, Stgt.; ISBN 3476016722
Feuerstein, Günther. Androgynos: Das Mann-Weibliche in Kunst und
Architektur. [: the Male-Female in Art and Architecture.]
Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 1997. ISBN 3930698749
Hassler, Marianne. Androgynie. Taschenbuch (1990) Hogrefe Vlg.,
Kornw.; ISBN 3801703908
Hertzer, Karin. Mann oder Frau: Wenn die Grenzen fließend werden.
Taschenbuch - 220 Seiten (1999) Ariston-Vlg., München;
ISBN 3720520633
Sill, Bernhard. Androgynie und Geschlechtsdifferenz nach Franz von
Baader. Eine anthropo.-ethische Studie. Gebundene Ausgabe -
512 Seiten (Mai 1998) F. Pustet, Regensbg.; ISBN 3791709526
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Books of Questionable Relevance | back to top
Broughton, James. The Androgyne Journal. Seattle, WA: Broken Moon
Press, 1991. Paperback.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
New York: Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0415900425 hardcover
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
New York: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1989. ISBN 0415900433 paperback
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
New York: Routledge; 10th Anniv edition, 1999. ISBN 0415924995 paper
The Divine Androgyne: According to Purusha: Adventures in Cosmic Erotic
Ecstasy and Androgyne Bodyconsciousness. See: Larkin, (Christopher)
Purusha Androgyne.
Faithfull, Theodore J. Mystery of the Androgyne: Three Papers on The
Theory and Practice of Psycho-Analysis. Forum Publishing of
London, 1938. 79 pp. [Faithful also wrote a book named The
Re-Education of the Invert and an article named Bisexuality:
An Essay on Extraversion and Introversion.]
Henry, Maurice. 32 Positions of the Androgyne. NY: Putnam, 1961.
Erotic cartoon illustrations throughout.
Kessel, Edward Luther. The Androgynous Christ: A Christian Feminist View.
Portland, OR: Softcover. 8vo. Privately printed. (1988?) [From:
JASA (Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation) 35 September1983, 129-136: "The following statements constitute a plausible
biological scenario for Jesus during embryological development. (1)
God's activity in which he accomplished the Virgin Conception and
Virgin Birth is describable in terms of natural created processes.
(2) Jesus' conception, gestation, and birth were parthenogenetic.
(3) Nonsexual God was incarnated into the human race as a female.
(4) Jesus was not only conceived as a female but remained
chromosomally such throughout life. (5) Through the natural
process of sex reversal Jesus became male, not instead of female
but as well as female, assuming the phenotype of a man while
retaining the chromosomal badge of a woman. (6) Thus Jesus was
born and lived as the androgynous Christ."]
Larkin, (Christopher) Purusha Androgyne. The Divine Androgyne: According
to Purusha: Adventures in Cosmic Erotic Ecstasy and Androgyne
Bodyconsciousness. California: Sanctuary, 1981. Self-published
hardback. [about spirituality and sexuality for gay males, really]
Lind, Earl (aka Ralph Werther, aka Jennie June). Ed. with introduction,
by Alfred W. Herzog. Autobiography of an Androgyne. New York:
Medico-legal Journal, 1918. [see also Werther, Ralph. The book's
two sequels are The Female-Impersonators and The Riddle of The
Underworld, the latter of which is very rare.]
Lind, Earl (aka Ralph Werther, aka Jennie June). Ed. with introduction,
by Alfred W. Herzog. Autobiography of an Androgyne. New York:
Arno Press, 1975. Also, Ayer Co. Pub., September 1975, with an
ISBN: 040507400X [see also Werther, Ralph. The book's two sequels
are The Female-Impersonators and The Riddle of The Underworld.]
Lind, Earl. Autobiography of an Androgyne. Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
Fredonia Books, June 2005. ISBN 1410108805 paperback
Mann, John H. Divine Androgyny. Portal Press, 1999. Paperback, 143 pp.
ISBN-10: 0967436109
Neusner, Jacob. Androgynous Judaism: Masculine and Feminine in the Dual
Torah. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1993. ISBN 086554428X
hardback
Powell, Victor. Christ, Androgyny and the New Humanity. APS Publishing,
June 30, 2004. ISBN-10: 1903877237 ISBN-13: 978-1903877234
Paperback: 96 pp.
Purusha. See: Larkin, (Christopher) Purusha Androgyne.
Werther, Ralph (aka Jennie June, aka Earl Lind). Ed. with introduction,
by Alfred W. Herzog. The female - impersonators; a sequel to the
Autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's
experiences during his six years' career as instinctive
female-impersonator in New York's underworld ... New York: The
Medico-Legal Journal, 1922. [sequel to Autobiography of an
Androgyne, by Earl Lind. Followed by The Riddle of the Underworld.
See also Lind, Earl.]
Werther, Ralph (aka Jennie June, aka Earl Lind). Ed. with introduction,
by Alfred W. Herzog. The female-impersonators. New York: Arno
Press, 1975 [c1922]. Also, Ayer Co. Pub. Reprint edition, June
1975, with an ISBN 0405073585 [sequel to Autobiography of an
Androgyne, by Earl Lind. Followed by The Riddle of the Underworld.
See also Lind, Earl.]
