Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen, Michael Rosen, Jan Saudek, Barbara Nitke, Mark I. Chester, Paul Dahlquist, Charles Gatewood, Phyllis Christopher, Tee A. Corinne, and others
The Gender Frontier (Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003, Hardback)
2004 Lambda Literary Award.
"From activism to inner explorations, this book presents the broadest available imaging of the incredible diversity of those daring souls whose lives are committed to exploring the gender frontier. "
Nancy R. Nangeroni
GenderTalk Radio
Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them (E.P. Dutton, Inc. 1989, Hardback. Photographs and interviews)
This is a pioneering book of photographs and interviews with crossdressers and their loved ones: wives, children, and other family members. The focus is on presenting crossdressers in daily life, in positive settings and relationships. The photographs sensitive, sometimes beautiful, and the text offers insight into the differences between sexual orientation and gender presentation. "Transformations" is suitable for schools and libraries.
Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade (Columbia University Press, 1994, Hardback) Jack Kugelmass.
Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen, Elijah Cobb, Harold Davis, Lauren Piperno, and Marilyn Stern.
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender (Firebrand Books, 1997), Riki Anne Wilchins. Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen
Over the course of the past decade transgender politics have become the cutting edge of sexual liberation. While the sexual and political freedom of homosexuals has yet to be fully secured, questions of who is sleeping with whom pale in the face of the battle by transgender activists to dismantle the idea of what it means to be a man or a woman. Riki Anne Wilchins's Read My Lips is a passionate, witty, and extraordinarily intelligent look at how society not only creates men and women--ignoring the fluidity of maleness and femaleness in most people--but also explains how those categories generate crisis for most individuals. It is impossible to read Wilchins's ideas and not be provoked in fundamental and mysterious ways.
Angry Women (powerHouse Books,1991) Andrea Juno
An enduring bestseller since its first printing in 1991, "Angry Women" has been equipping a new generation of women with an expanded vision of what feminism could be, influencing Riot Grrrls, neo-feminists, lipstick lesbians, and suburban breeders alike. A classic textbook widespread in college curriculae, "Angry Women" is the most influential book on women, culture, and radical ideology since "The Second Sex".
Photo of Susie Bright and Honey Lee Cottrell by Mariette Pathy Allen.
Becoming a Visible Man (Vanderbilt University Press, 1997), by Jamison Green. Cover by Mariette Pathy Allen.
A California transsexual activist offers insights into the challenges of gender dysphoria. Born with a female body, and in a lesbian parent relationship prior to sex reassignment surgery, Jamieson begins his frank personal and analytic account by asking how we know our sex. He discusses the complexities of the answer for those whose sex and gender are mismatched; medical options; psychosocial and legal implications; and media representations of "transpeople." A sociologist introduces Jamieson's identity quest as a core human struggle.
Transgender Good News (New Wineskins Press, 2002), by Pat Conover
The author critiques desperately flawed "scientific" research on transgenderism, gives a clear explanation of authentic transgender experiences and discusses the Biblical Christian attitude toward transgendered people.
Cover and photo section by Mariette Pathy Allen.
Gender Blending (Prometheus Books, 1997), by Bonnie Bullough
"The Changing Face of the Transgender community", pp 311-315. Essay and photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Beacon Press, 1997) by Leslie Feinberg
Mariette Pathy Allen contributed many photographs to the book.
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2004) by Joanne Meyerowitz. Illustration #20: photograph of Louis Sullivan by Mariette Pathy Allen
In this story of transsexuality, Meyerowitz shows how new definitions of sex circulated in popular culture, science, medicine, and the law, and she elucidates the tidal shifts in our social, moral, and medical beliefs over the twentieth century, away from sex as an evident biological certainty and toward an understanding of sex as something malleable and complex. How Sex Changed is an intimate history that illuminates the very changes that shape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality today.