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Book list about or containing references to transmasculine history - spanning from “cross dressers” or “passing women” to biographies and social histories of people recognized as trans afab people. Due to the way our history has been appropriated by cis people over the years and because of the blurriness of the boundaries between gender and sexuality, some of these books may be transphobic or controversial so proceed with caution! I haven’t read all of these (yet) and don’t endorse all their viewpoints but I still think knowing our history is crucial to knowing ourselves. This list is growing!
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Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
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Stone Butch Blues
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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
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We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
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“Masquerading in Male Attire”: Women Passing as Men in America, 1844–1920
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Female Masculinity
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Masculinities without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions
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Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature
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The Female Crucifix: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages
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Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics
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Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature
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Eugenia: A true story of adversity, tragedy, crime and courage
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The He She Killer : The True Story of Eugenia Falleni
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Clothes Make the Man
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Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
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Information for the Female-to-Male Cross Dresser and Transsexual
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The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic
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Daniel A. Cohen (Editor)
3.19 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Female Wartime Crossdressers in the American Civil War: Malinda Blalock, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Albert Cashier, Florena Budwin
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Lgbt Info - Female Wartime Crossdressers: Female Wartime Crossdressers in the American Civil War, Angelique Brulon, Anne Chamberlyne, Beebe Beam, Brit
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The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe
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Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
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Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers
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Anneka Harry (Narrator)
2.89 avg rating — 432 ratings
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From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland
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The Life and Career of Alberta Lucille / Dr. Alan L. Hart with Collected Early Writings
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Transgender and Transsexual Writers: Alan L. Hart, Rachel Pollack, Charlotte Charke, Claude Cahun, Stephen Whittle, Martine Rothblatt
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The Fighting Infantryman: The Story of Albert D. J. Cashier, Transgender Civil War Soldier
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Rob Sanders (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Also Known as Albert D. J. Cashier: The Jennie Hodgers Story, or How One Young Irish Girl Joined the Union Army During the Civil War
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A Velvet Fist in an Iron Glove: The Curious Case of Albert Cashier
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The Perfect Gentleman: The remarkable life of Dr. James Miranda Barry
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Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
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Were I Not a Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry
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Lisa Robinson (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor
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The Secret Life Of Dr. James Miranda Barry
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Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry: A Study in Transgender and Transgenre
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An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864
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True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Female Husbands: A Trans History
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The Female Husband: Or, the Surprising History of Mrs. Mary, Alias Mr. George Hamilton, Who Was Convicted of Having Married a Young Woman of Wells and Lived with Her As Her Husband
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2.89 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
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Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities
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3.96 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
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Histories of the Transgender Child
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Transgender History
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Sporting Gender: The History, Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes
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Joanna Harper (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 84 ratings
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History of Transgender People in America
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Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
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Gluck: Her Biography
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Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun
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Jennifer L. Shaw (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore
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Louise Downie (Editor)
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Disavowals: Or Cancelled Confessions
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The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
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Pagan Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
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She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War
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Bonnie Tsui (Goodreads Author)
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
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Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919
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Joan of Arc: A History
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The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
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Nancy Goldstone (Goodreads Author)
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
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Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words
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Joan of Arc: A Life From Beginning to End
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Joan of Arc
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Joan of Arc
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The Death of Joan of Arc (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #4.5)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
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The Female Soldier Or, the Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell
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Hannah Snell: The Secret Life of a Female Marine, 1723-1792
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It's a Woman's World: Females Who Lived as Men to Fight for the World Featuring Joan of Arc, Pope Joan, Hannah Snell, and More
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Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson
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The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson
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Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
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Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
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The History of Sex (But Not As We Know It): A Journey from Pompeii's Oldest Brothel to Cold War Sexpionage, Angry Male Lesbians and Beyond
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Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History
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Howard Chiang (Contributor)
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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
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The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (Monographs in German History, 32)
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The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935
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In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women Around 1800
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Cross-dressed to Kill: Women who went to war disguised as men
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Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
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A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment
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Parting with my Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life
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Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories
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Alex Bakker (Editor)
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