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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 -- Africa
• Gender identity -- Amazon River Region
• Gender identity -- Congresses
• Gender identity -- Germany
• Gender identity -- Greece
• Gender identity -- History
• Gender identity -- Latin America
• 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

• Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Jarrod Hayes (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• 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)

• The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Edward Schiappa
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• 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)

• 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)

• Renaissance News (1987-1995) (partial serial archives)

• Polare: A Magazine for People With Gender Issues (1993-present) (full serial archives)

• Polare: A Magazine for People With Gender Issues (1993-present) (full serial archives)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• Out in the Mountains (1986-2007) (full serial archives)

• Polare: A Magazine for People With Gender Issues (1993-present) (full serial archives)

• 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)

• Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Jarrod Hayes (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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)

• The Transsexual Phenomenon (originally published 1966), by Harry Benjamin (HTML at archive.org)
• Sacred Cows Make the Best Hamburger (King of Prussia, PA: Creative Design Services, c1993), by JoAnn Roberts (PDF at Digital Transgender Archive)

• 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)

• Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2021), by Li Guo (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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)

• 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)
• Normed Children: Effects of Gender and Sex Related Normativity on Childhood and Adolescence (Bielefeld: Transcript, c2018), ed. by Erik Schneider and Christel Baltes-Löhr (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto (version 4.0; ca. 2000), by Allucquère Rosanne Stone (PDF at sandystone.com)

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