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Laura Lam

Works Consulted & Resources

Works Consulted for Pantomime & Shadowplay:

Intersex/Gender Studies:

Books:

Callahan, G.N. (2009). Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes. Chicago Review Press.
Dreger, Alice Domurat (2000). Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Harvard University Press.*
Fine, Cordelia (2011). Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences. Icon Books Ltd.
Harper, Catherine (2004). Intersex. Berg Publishers.
Hillman, Thea (2008). Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word). Manic D Press.
Mcdougall, Richard (1988). Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century Hermaphrodite. Random House.

Documentaries/Interviews:

Harrison, Giles (2011). Me, My Sex, and I. London: British Broadcasting Corporation.
Porter, Gale & Soomekh, Laleh (2000). XXXY. Berkeley Media.

Organizations & Blogs:

DSD Families
Full-frontal Activism: Intersex and Awesome
Intersex Initiative
Intersex Unicorn
Organization Intersex International in the United States of America

Circus:

Assael, Brenda (2005). The Circus and Victorian Society. University of Virginia Press.
Daniel, Noel (ed.) (2008). The Circus Book 1870s-1950s. Taschen.
Good Magic. British/Euro Circus/Fairground Slang.
University of Sheffield. National Fairground Archive.
My Pinterest Board: Vintage Circus Photography.
My Pinterest Board: Vintage Circus Posters.

Magicians, Illusions & Spritualism:

Lamont, Peter (2005). The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Victorian Wizard. Little, Brown.
Steinmeyer, Jim (2003). Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear. Da Capo Press.
Steinmeyer, Jim; Jay, Ricky; Daniel, Noel (eds.) (2009). Magic: 1400s to 1950s. Taschen.
Warner, Marina (2006). Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press.
My Pinterest board: Vintage Magic Photography.
My Pinterest board: Vintage Magic Posters.

Victorian Medicine & Society:

Alpert, Michael (2004). London 1849: A Victorian Murder Story. Longman Publishing Group.
Eastoe, Jane (2010). Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Home Remedies and Recipes. Pavillion.
Porter, Roy (2004). Blood and Guts: A Brief History of Medicine. W. W. Norton & Company.

Works Consulted for False Hearts & Shattered Minds:

Carter, Rita (1998). Mapping the Mind. University of California Press. (Neuroscience: FH & SM)
Dreger, Alice Domurat (2005). One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal. (Conjoined Twins: FH)*
Greenwald, Glen (2014). No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt. (Espionage: SM)
Isaacson, Walter (2014). The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon & Schuster. (Espionage: SM)
Javers, Isaac (2010). Broker, Trader, Solider, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage. Collins Business. (Espionage: SM)
Kelleher, Michael D. & C.L. (1998). Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer. Praeger. (Serial Killers: SM)
Quigley, Christine (2003). Conjoined Twins: An Historical, Biological and Ethical Issues Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. (Conjoined Twins: FH)
Vronsky, Peter (2004). Serial Killers : The Methods and Madness of Monsters. Harvard University Press. (Serial Killers: SM)

*=Though work should stand on its own and I did find them both very useful at the time for my book research, Dreger has said some things about trans people I find uncomfortable, hence I now hesitate to recommend these books.

Laura Lam

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