Bibliographies and Books Concerning Our Heritage

These Books are Recommended

Conner, Randolph P. Blossom of Bone, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993. An excellent source filled with an immensity of information on gender-variance - but with one very notable blind-spot - the author denies the assertions of the transgendered that they are really the gender they and their communities say they are - and instead said that they are, like the author, gay. Vermaseren, Maarten J. Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult. translated by A.H.Lemmers. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. An in-depth and scholarly book on the practices and lives of the Gallae in Early Rome, and much more.A picture
of a wewhaa woman.

Roscoe, Will. We'wha: The Zuni Man-Woman. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1991. A moving life story of a lhamana, man/woman of the Zuni in early America

 

Other Notable Sources - but its appearance on this list does not mean that this website endorses them.

Adams, J.N. The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1982.

Arthur, Gavin. The Circle of Sex. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books,Inc., <H1>1966.</H1>

Bonnefoy, Yves. Roman and European Mythologies. translated under the direction of Wendy Doniger. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992.

Bullough, Vern L. Sexual Variance in Society and History. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1976.

Clifton, C.S. Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics. Santa Barbara: <H1>Abc-clio, 1992.</H1>

Cloke, Gillian. This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, AD 350 - 450. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Conner, Randolph P. Blossom of Bone, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993.

Delcourt, Marie. Hermaphrodite. London: Studio Books, 1961.

Detienne, Marcel. The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology. Hassocks, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1977.

Downing, Christine. Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love. New York: Continuum, 1989.

Dzielska, Maria. Hypatia of Alexandria. translated by F. Lyra. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.

Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. translated by W.R.Trask, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1974.

Fantham, Elaine, et al. Women in the Classical World. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.

Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Gardner, Jane F. Roman Myths. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993, in cooperation with the British Museum Press.

Genet, Jean. Our Lady of the Flowers, translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.

George, Leonard. Crimes of Perception: An Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics. New York: Paragon House, 1995.

Gilgamesh. translated by John Gardner and John Maier. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

Ginzburg, Carlo. Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath. New York: Pantheon/Random House, 1991.

Harrison, Jane E. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1991.

Highwater, Jamake. Myth and Sexuality. New York: New American Library/Penguin, 1990.

James, E.O. Myth and Ritual in the Ancient Near East. New York: Praeger, <H1>1958.</H1>

Jayakar, Pupul. The Earth Mother: Legends, Ritual Arts, and Goddesses of India. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990.

Kramer, S.N. and Maier, J. Myths of Enki, the Crafty God. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989.

MacMullen, Ramsay. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1981.

Martello, Leo Louis. Witchcraft: The Old Religion. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1975.

Matthews, Caitlin. Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom: The Divine Feminine from Black Goddess to World-Soul. London: Aquarian/Thorsons, 1992.

Momigliano, A. The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1963.

Nanda, Serena. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont,CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1990.

Neumann, Erich. The Great Mother. translated by Ralph Manheim. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1955.

O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980.

Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1990.

Parke, H.W. Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity. edited by B.C. McGing. London: Routledge, 1988.

Reinach, Salomon. Orpheus: A History of Religions. translated by Florence Simmonds. New York: Horace Liveright, 1930.

Richlin, Amy. The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor. New Haven,CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1983.

Showerman, G. The Great Mother of the Gods. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, <H1>1969.</H1>

Shual, Katon. Sexual Magick. Oxford: Mandrake, 1989.

Torjesen, Karen Jo. When Women Were Priests. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

Vermaseren, Maarten J. Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult. translated by A.H.Lemmers. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.

Wace, H., and Piercy, W.C. A Dictionary of Christian Biography. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994.

Walker, Barbara G . The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1983.

Wilson, Peter Lamborn. Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy. Brooklyn: Autonomedia,Inc., 1988.

Wolkstein, Diane; and Kramer, Samuel. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Zolla, Elemire. The Androgyne: Reconciliation of Male and Female. New York: Crossroad, 1981.

 

Other Books on Gender Related Subjects

Cossey, Caroline. My Story, London: Faber and Faber, 1991.

Kates, Gary. Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

eVay, Simon. The Sexual Brain. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.

von Mahlsdorf, Charlotte. I Am My Own Woman: The outlaw life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's most distinguished transvestite. translated by Jean Hollander. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1995.

Money, John. Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.

Roscoe, Will. We'wha: The Zuni Man-Woman. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1991.

Rutherford, Erica. Nine Lives: The Autobiography of Erica Rutherford. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Ragweed Press, 1993.

Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

 

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