The Respect Together library contains some of the freshest and most up to date resources available. These include valuable resources for the Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex communities. With over 58,000 unique titles, the library boasts quality research, training materials, audio visual resources, and much more. Check out the titles below, along with the thousands of other great quality resources in the online catalog at www.nsvrclibrary.org.
Bodies and barriers: Queer Activists on Health Edited by Adrian Shanker
LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, yet many are still grappling to understand the health care challenges leaving LGBT people to experience worsened health outcomes. Bodies and Barriers informs health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, and fellow activists about these challenges, providing insights and a road map for action that could improve queer health. Bodies and Barriers illuminates the health challenges LGBT people experience and challenges conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of these disparities and empowers activists with crucial information to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes. The activist contributors in Bodies and Barriers look for tangible improvements, drawing lessons from the history of HIV/AIDS in America and from struggles against healthcare bias and discrimination.
Bodies and barriers: Queer Activists on Health Edited by Adrian Shanker (MP Press, 2020) 209 pgs.
The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools by Suart Biegel
Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the United States, the public school environment remains daunting, even frightening, as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination, bullying, violence, and suicide. Yet efforts to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students and educators, or to enhance curricula to better reflect the experience of differing sexual orientations and gender identities, are bitterly opposed in the courtroom, at the ballot box, and especially in the schools themselves. The Right to Be Out begins with a cogent history and analysis of the dramatic legal developments concerning the rights of LGBT persons since 1968. Stuart Biegel then turns to what K-12 schools should do and, in many cases, have already done to implement right-to-be-out policies. He examines recent legal and public policy changes that affect LGBT students and educators in the K-12 public school system. Underlying all of these issues, he shows, is an implicit tension about the right to be out, a right that is seen as fundamental within LGBT communities today and, legally, draws on both the First Amendment right to express an identity and the Fourteenth Amendment right to be treated equally. Biegel addresses the implications of asserting and protecting this right within the hotly contested terrain of America's public schools. This book is a valuable resource for K-12 school administrators, parents, teacher organizations, mental health professionals and school counselors, LGBT advocacy groups, and the legal community. A safe and supportive educational environment for all students is possible, Biegel concludes, if built on shared values and a belief in the strength of our pluralistic society.
The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools by Suart Biegel (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) 300 pgs.
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Transgender Studies edited by J.E. Sumerau
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Transgender Studies is a comprehensive yet concise overview of important issues, themes, and research on transgender people and populations. Coupling both their scholarly expertise with their lived experiences, the contributors tackle a full gamut of topics, including medical care, education, coming out, bathroom and military politics and possibilities, and the creation of families. The volume opens with an introduction from the editor who outlines her own journey and experience searching for information on “transgender studies” in the early 2010’s. Since then, the field has risen in prominence and is one of the fastest growing areas of research in gender studies. Scholars and students alike will find this to be an accessible and essential primer on the societal forces that impact and shape the lives of transgender people.
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Transgender Studies Edited by J.E. Sumerau (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023) 182 pgs.
Social Injustice and Public Health edited by Barry S. Levy & Victor W. Sidel
Edited by two leading public health physicians with chapters written by 48 experts in various aspects of social injustice, this book addresses social injustice and its relationship to public health. Major sections of the book focus on how the health of specific population groups is affected by social injustice, how specific areas of public health and medical care are affected by social injustice, and what needs to be done to reduce social injustice and its impact on health.
Social Injustice and Public Health edited by Barry S. Levy & Victor W. Sidel (Oxford University Press, 2006) 529 pgs.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth
This book is a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer authors. It provides authoritative information in an inclusive way and represents the collective knowledge base of dozens of influential experts. Woven throughout are testimonials from transgender people who have been surveyed about their experiences.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth (Oxford University Press, 2014) 649 pgs.
Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction edited by Adam M. Messinger & Xavier L. Guadalope-Diaz
In the course of their lives, around fifty percent of transgender people will experience intimate partner violence in their relationships―including psychological, physical, or sexual abuse. In Transgender Intimate Partner Violence, Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz bring together a diverse group of scholars, service providers, activists, and others to examine this widespread problem, shedding light on the often-hidden experiences of transgender survivors.
Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction edited by Adam M. Messinger & Xavier L. Guadalope-Diaz (New York University Press, 2020) 398 pgs.