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Gender identity

Here are entered works on a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female. Works on the role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to masculinity or femininity as determined by prevailing cultural norms are entered under Sex role.

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• Identity (Psychology)
• Sex (Psychology)

• Queer theory

• Gender identity -- Amazon River Region
• Gender identity -- Congresses
• Gender identity -- Germany
• Gender identity -- Greece
• Gender identity -- Juvenile fiction
• Gender identity -- Latin America
• Gender identity -- Law and legislation
• Gender identity -- Malaysia
• Gender identity -- Melanesia
• Gender identity -- Periodicals
• Gender identity -- Religious aspects
• Gender identity -- United States
• Gender identity in art
• Gender identity in literature
• Gender nonconformity
• Gender transition
• Transgender people -- Identity
• Transsexualism

• Sex identity (Gender identity)
• Sexual identity (Gender identity)

• Report of the APA Task Force on Gender Identity and Gender Variance (Washington: American Psychological Association, c2009), by American Psychological Association, contrib. by Margaret S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at apa.org)
• Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity (London and New York: Routledge, c2010), ed. by Sally Hines and Tam Sanger (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jonathan Alexander
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Man and woman; a study of human secondary sexual characters. (Scott, 1904), by Havelock Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sexology as the philosophy of life: implying social organization and government. (Published for the author by J.R. Walsh, 1867), by Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in war-time : further studies in the task of social hygiene (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by Havelock Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opposite sexes : a study of woman's natural and cultural history (Metheun, 1927), by Adolf Heilborn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Mubtakar fī bayān mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-muʼannath wa-al-mudhakkar (880-04 Bhūpal : Maṭbaʻ al-Shāhjahānī, 1880., 1880), by Dhū al-Fiqār Aḥmad Naqawī, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Thomas Gregor and Donald F. Tuzon (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Gender in Pre-Hispanic America, ed. by Cecelia F. Klein (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Ina Linge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Acting like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Karen Bassi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prudy keeping house (Lee and Shepard, 1870), by Rebecca Sophia Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Prudy keeping house. (Lee and Shepard, Publishers ;, 1871), by Sophie May, John Andrew, John Andrew & Son, Boston Stereotype Foundry, Shepard & Dillingham Lee, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Asbury twins (Lee and Shepard, 1876), by Sophie May, Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey, Rebecca Sophia Clarke, Alfred Mudge and Son, John Andrew & Son, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Running to Waste: The Story of a Tomboy, by George M. Baker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Runaways and the gipsies (London, New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1874) (page images at Florida)

• Legal aspects of transsexualism (International Foundation for Gender Education, 1990), by Sister Mary Elizabeth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Michael G. Peletz (HTML at UC Press)

• Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Thomas Gregor and Donald F. Tuzon (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• AEGIS News (1994-1998) (partial serial archives)
• Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities (with predecessor publication Chrysalis Quarterly; 1995-1998) (full serial archives)
• Chrysalis Quarterly (with successor publication Chrysalis; 1991-1995) (full serial archives)
• Polare: A Magazine for People With Gender Issues (1993-present) (full serial archives)
• Revista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología (in Spanish and English; 2002-) (partial serial archives)
• Revista Direito e Sexualidade (in Portuguese, English and Spanish; 2020-) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (2022-) (partial serial archives)

• Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities (with predecessor publication Chrysalis Quarterly; 1995-1998) (full serial archives)

• Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities (with predecessor publication Chrysalis Quarterly; 1995-1998) (full serial archives)
• Chrysalis Quarterly (with successor publication Chrysalis; 1991-1995) (full serial archives)

• AEGIS News (1994-1998) (partial serial archives)
• Renaissance News (1987-1995) (partial serial archives)
• Chrysalis Quarterly (with successor publication Chrysalis; 1991-1995) (full serial archives)
• Polare: A Magazine for People With Gender Issues (1993-present) (full serial archives)

• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v17; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2015), ed. by Christiane Erharter, Dietmar Schwärzler, Ruby Sircar, and Ashley Hans Scheirl (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Renée L. Bergland and Gary Williams, contrib. by Mary Hetherington Grant, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Marianne Noble, Laura Saltz, Elizabeth Klimasmith, Joyce W. Warren, Gary Williams, Bethany Suzanne Schneider, Suzanne Ashworth, Dana Luciano, and Elizabeth Young (PDF at Ohio State)
• Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Ina Linge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Acting like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Karen Bassi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Rhonda L. McDaniel (PDF at wmich.edu)
• Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Robert Vorlicky
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2010), by Julia C. Bullock (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1996), ed. by Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey (University of Michigan Press, 1995), by Lillian Eileen Doherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Mubtakar fī bayān mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-muʼannath wa-al-mudhakkar (880-04 Bhūpal : Maṭbaʻ al-Shāhjahānī, 1880., 1880), by Dhū al-Fiqār Aḥmad Naqawī, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the APA Task Force on Gender Identity and Gender Variance (Washington: American Psychological Association, c2009), by American Psychological Association, contrib. by Margaret S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at apa.org)

• Legal aspects of transsexualism (International Foundation for Gender Education, 1990), by Sister Mary Elizabeth (page images at HathiTrust)

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