A selection of non-fiction books about intersexuality. More books can be found here.
![Book cover for Between XX and XY : intersexuality and the myth of two sexes](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/4f7c8b573fda3a0b6d677fe272f72e4e.jpg?itok=Q5JxdO--)
Callahan may raise more questions than precise answers, and thereby opens up the discussion about what makes someone male, female or intersex,
![Book cover for Born both : an intersex life](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/25718e18f2213a781326965c565febb6.jpg?itok=LpiaRIT3)
A personal, sincere and candid autobiography about what it means to be born intersex. Viloria HIlda discusses her fight for human rights for all intersex people.
![Book cover for Contesting intersex : the dubious diagnosis](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/73d851554797e126809f55928b36348e.jpg?itok=Q3yUFTc6)
Sociologist Georgiann Davis tackles the issue of marking intersexuality as an abnormality. As someone who was not told by her doctors that she possessed XY chromosones (indicating intersex) in order to protect her gender identity.
![Book cover for Finding the real me : true tales of sex and gender diversity](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/de93c7deabe773daa880a285d9871f80.jpg?itok=OqBgFIpQ)
Comforting, supportive, real-life stories from people who have lived and thrived, despite struggles, with gender and sexual identity.
![Book cover for Fixing sex : intersex, medical authority, and lived experience](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/64098721d4bf9b064573a81a56b41d16.jpg?itok=63vvmDxM)
An examination of medical and social issues about intersex and intervention. This book also provides a historical view of how attitudes have and continue to change.
![Book cover for Intersex and identity : the contested self](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/a156a0ac269b7db5437e1e2c6e6d4092.jpg?itok=x-1mKMN7)
Personal interviews are the basis for this exploration of what it has meant to be labeled intersex. Preves carefully documents these experiences within the context of sociology, medicine, and political activism.
![Book cover for The no-nonsense guide to sexual diversity](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/aca40fe4d0c159406ce6bc7e61f2b572.jpg?itok=ngmU4G_B)
This book analyzes how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people have been treated in different parts of the world, and shows how great progress has been achieved, but also there is a long way to go towards complete equality.
![Book cover for Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2022/f1a50a5b5bbd45f1d3427367e3c477c7.jpg?itok=hwkiodRu)
Featured are the works of 30 artists who have remixed fiber crafts, such as crochet, embroidery, quilting, sewing, weaving. Using their artwork, they seek to examine queerness in various forms. The book is lavishly illustrated with color photographs.
![Book cover for Real queer America : LGBT stories from red states](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2022/a60232d44430db49981ed2b9b07f5ef2.jpg?itok=0yOH7Q28)
Samantha Allen took a cross-country road trip, from Provo Utah to the Bible Belt to the Deep South, allowing her motto, "Something gay every day," to be her guide.
![Book cover for Sex, lies & gender National Geographic Television ; producer/writer/director, David Elisco ; produced by National Geographic Television for National Geographic Channel.](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/0c0d1882b540a23c4f23c25762eaee33.jpg?itok=Y8UOqDlO)
This National Geographic documentary examines the lives of three different people with different sexual and gender situations: a hijra, transgender person, in Inida; a former soldier who is intersex; and a seven-year-old girl born with male sex organs, who has always as identified as female.
![Book cover for Third sex, third gender : beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/3ae50756c554fcdfa5495cd5bc643c81.jpg?itok=t-SQfLjr)
These eleven essays were intended as suggestions in which to look at sex roles and gender identity in a new way. The topics cover different historical and national forms pertaining to sex and gender: Native American berdache; Indian hijra caste; Byzantine Empre, Melanesia, Indonesia, Balkans and America. The subjects of the essays deliver historical perspectives.