Bookshelf: Best Non-Fiction Transgender Books
BY Diane Anderson-Minshall
November 20 2011 2:15 PM ET
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity ($11, Seal)
Not
just a memoir, Julia Serano's Whipping Girl is more like a manifesto by
the transgender lesbian activist and professional biologist. Whipping
Girl documents Serano's experiences and her growing awareness that a
widespread cultural abhorrence of femininity shapes our attitudes to
towards transgender women.
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