Selected Bibliography for the Show
Compiled by Milbre Burch, PhD
www.kindcrone.com
Folktales Told in Changing Skins
Boas, Franz. “Coyote, Fox, and Panther” in Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, Volume 11. Lancaster, PA: American Folklore Society, 1917 (pp. 75-76).
Braid, Donald. “The Lad and the Black Laird” in Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Downing, Charles. “The Girl Who Changed into a Boy” in Armenian Folk-tales and Fables. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp.83-86.
A.C. Hollis, ED. “A Little Taste of the Medicine” adapted from “The Boy and His Knee” in The Masai: Their Language and Folklore. Oxford: Clarendon Press,1905. (Pp.153-155.)
Husain, Shahrukh. “The Mouse, the Thing, and the Wand” in Handsome Heroines. New York: Doubleday, 1996. (Pp.112-139.)
MacDonald, Margaret Read, ED. “The Ice Bear Child” in Look Back and See: Twenty Lively Tales for Gentle Tellers. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1991.
Mathers, E. Powys, trans. “An Indian Princess Borrows a Jinni’s Sex” in The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night from the French of Dr. J. C. Mardrus. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1964. (v. 4, p. 411.)
Pino-Saaverdra, Yolando, ed. “Florinda” In Folktales of Chile. Rockwell Gray, ed. Folktales of the World (series.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. (Pp. 103-108.)
Riordan, James. “The Woman in the Moon” in The Woman in the Moon and Other Forgotten Heroines. London: Random House UK, 1993.
Smyth, Robert, ED. “Zusia” adapted from the tale by that name, retold by Carol Birch in Ahhhh! A Tribute to Brother Blue and Ruth Edmonds Hill. Somerville, MA: Yellow Moon Press, 2003.
“The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh” (Traditional) Accessed on the Internet at http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft34.htm 9 June 2010.
Vyasa, “Sikhandin” in the Mahabharata – Book Five, Udyoga Parva: Uluka Dutagamana Parva: Section CXC-CXCV. Accessed on the Internet at www.sacred-texts.com 5 May 2008
Sources for Quotes in Changing Skins
Associated Press, “Is She a He? Runner’s Family Members Dismissing Gender Uproar” Columbia Daily Tribune 20 August 2009: B1.
Bagemihl, Bruce. Biological Exuberance –Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Paraphrased Paul L. Vasey’s quote on P. 54.
Ensler, Eve. The Good Body. New York: Villard, 2005. P. 86
Nibley, Lydia, dir. Two Spirits. Prod. Russell Martin and Say Yes Quickly Productions in association with Henry Ansbacher and Just Media. 2009. Accessed on the Internet on 21 April 2010. http://www.twospirits.org/
Queer Theory Resources
(*mentioned in Changing Skins)
*Bagemihl, Bruce. Biological Exuberance –Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw – On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Brekhus, Wayne, Ed. The Intersections Collection. New York: Pearson Customs Printing, 2009.
*Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex: A Novel. New York: Picador, 2007.
*Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body – Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues. Los Angeles: Beacon Alyson Books, 1993.
—. Transgender Warriors – Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Hubbard, Ruth. Quote is found on pages 518-519 in Peggy McCracken’s article “’The Boy Who Was A Girl’: Reading Gender in the Roman De Silence.” The Romanic Review, Vol. 85, No. 4., (1994), pp. 517-536.
Jagose, Annamarie. Queer Theory – An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Other Resources of Interest
Black, Daniel. Perfect Peace. New York: St. Martin’s, 2010.
Cashorali, Peter. Gay Fairy and Folk Tales: More Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1997.
—. Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995.
Conner, Randy P., David Hatfield Sparks and Maiya Sparks, ed. Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit, Covering Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore. London: Cassell, 1997.
Cross, Donna Woolfolk. Pope Joan. New York: Ballantine, 1996.
Ellis, Deborah. Parvana’s Journey. Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre, 2002.
—. Mud City. Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre, 2003.
Grahn, Judy. Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds. Boston: Beacon Press, 1984.
Kerry, Stephen. “‘There’s Genderqueers On The Starboard Bow’: The Pregnant Man In Star Trek,” The Journal of Popular Culture 42.4 (2009): 699-714.
Kilodavis, Cherl. My Princess Boy: A Mom’s story about a young boy who loves to dress up. New York: Aladdin, 2011.
Morgan, Ruth and Saskia Wieringa, ED. Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Same Sex Practices in Africa. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2006
Nanda, Serena. Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999.
Newton, Esther. Margaret Mead Made Me Gay – Personal Essays, Public Ideas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
—. Mother Camp – Female Impersonators in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.
O’Keefe, Tracie and Katrina Fox, ED. Finding the Real Me – True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
Roscoe, Will, ED. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 1998.
—. The Zuni Man-Woman. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
Zapperi, Roberto. The Pregnant Man. Translated from the Italian by Brian Williams. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991