In this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening jaunt through the history of gender expression and a powerful testament to the rebellious spirit.

Crossing: A Memoir
by Deirdre N. McCloskey
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We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing--completely and entirely--the gender line. "Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman. McCloskey's account of her painstaking efforts to learn to "be a woman" unearth fundamental questions about gender and identity, and hatreds and anxieties, revealing surprising answers.
 

Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide
by Janis Walworth

Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity
Editors: Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox with a Foreword by
Stephen Whittle
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This is a collection of funny, sad, revealing, and inspiring stories of sex and gender diversity, as told by a variety of articulate and honest people who are on a journey towards "finding the real me." The book will share the true and widely-varied experiences of people within the sex and gender diverse community around the world. Their stories include sadness, humor, misunderstanding, love, shame, acceptance, suffering, and triumph.

Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Between Men--Between Women)
Evelyn Blackwood
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Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa have compiled thirteen essays from a group of historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss same-sex desire among women outside the West, exploring female eroticism in such societies and cultures as India, Polynesia, Latin America, Native North America, and southern Africa.  "Female Desires" offers compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality.

It also dispels the idea that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western neo-imperialist culture: contributors show non-Western women to be active agents of their own sexual identities.

Essays include Giti Thadani on lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, Saskia Wieringa on butch-femme social types in Indonesia and Peru, and Norma Mogrovejo on the lesbian movement in Mexico.In a larger sense, the essays attempt to look past the ethnocentric categories in which sexuality, identity, and culture are often considered.