Works Consulted & Resources

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Works Consulted for Pantomime & Shadowplay:

Note: Ones with a * I have not read/watched but plan to because they seem interesting/relevant.

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.
Hart, Pheobe (2010). Orchids: My Intersex Adventure. Hartflicker Moving Pictures.*
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.
Owen, Alex (2004). The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. University Of Chicago Press.*
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.
Steinmeyer, Jim (2005). The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the “Marvelous Chinese Conjurer”. Da Capo Press.*
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.
Bondeson, Jan (1997). A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities. W. W. Norton & Company.*
Eastoe, Jane (2010). Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Home Remedies and Recipes. Pavillion.
Flanders, Judith (2011). The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime. Thomas Dunne Books.*
Wise, Sarah (2004). The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London. Holt McDougal.*