Topic: Books & Authors

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #105, Spring 2004.

Eunuch Monks of Krat

Review by Sam More

The Insatiable Adventures of the Eunuch Monks of Krat. (2002). Tucker Lieberman, XLibris, $14.95.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #103, Fall 2003.
Review by Christine Beatty

Sex sells. That tenet is a mainstay of modern marketing. For decades everything from toothpaste to new cars have been marketed using the suggestion of sex. And sexologist J. Michael Bailey?s new book, The Man Who Would be Queen: The Science of Gender Bending and Transsexualism, is a glaring example. Combine lurid sexual description with some fact, with controversial research done a decade or more prior, with long-debunked stereotypes and with the author?s smug assurance, and you have Bailey?s book. And while it should be easy to dismiss it as sensationalized exploitation, in reality it is dangerous to the entire transgender community, and especially to transsexual people.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #103, Fall 2003.

Wrapped in Blue - A Journey of Discovery is the recently released autobiography by Donna Rose. Now available in paperback from the Synchronicity Bookstore

Diana Hignutt, author of "Moonsword" was featured in the current issue of the Philadelphia Weekly. Check out the article at www.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives.asp?ArtID=6040

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #102, Summer 2003.

Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context
by Vern L. Bullough (Ed.)
Harrington Park Press ? 2002

a book review by C. Jacob Hale

This collection of fascinating biographies dispels myths that locate the Stonewall uprising as central to gay and lesbian activism in the United States. Here we learn about nearly fifty of the many people?gay, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, transgendered, non-transgendered?who made a tremendous difference in the quality of life for gays and lesbians in the U.S. today. We learn about the ideological, personal, intellectual, and pragmatic reasons for their choices of strategies and tactics, and we learn about political disagreements among them.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #097, Spring 2002.

Because your editor had a negative reaction to a book treasured by many in the community, we?re featuring a contrasting review by our own Miqqi Alicia. Those interested in another viewpoint should see Transgender Tapestry #92?Ed.