Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale.
Nations can have literatures, as can corporations, philosophical schools or historical periods. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a nation, for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it a whole nation. The Hebrew Bible, Persian Shahnama, Thirukural, Beowulf, the Iliad and the Odyssey and the Constitution of the United States, all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
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Writing and Literature :: Transgendered

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Not About Makeup - A wonderful semi-weekly column by a mixed-race Latina intersexed transgendered dyke, in the online version of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Bi Community News: Intersexuality - An essay on the realities of intersex experience and the intersections with the bisexual community.
Hermaphrodites With Attitude - Spring1995 - Includes Learning to Speak at 36 by Jane Carden (on testicular feminization), Thinking of more surgery? by IQ, a variety of letters including Hermaphrodite and damn proud! and What I wish my parents had been told about hypospadias, and a poem entitled I am intersex by Lee.
Hermaphrodites With Attitude, Summer 1995 - Includes Becoming totally gendered, by Sam (Klinefelter's), Talking about it by David, Don't forget to walk the jury by Robin Diane Goldstein, and a poem titled Rejection by Gwendolyn A. Spencer.
Intersex In The Age Of Ethics - An exploration of the ethics of intersex medical treatment, based on real people's lives and experiences.
Lessons From the Intersexed - A pioneering analysis of the cultural factors that influence medical management of intersexuality.
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Raphael Carter - The Androgyny RAQ, M. Manners' Guide to Androgynous Etiquette, and The Angel's Dictionary.
The Library - Features an extensive series by intersexed performance artist Lynnell Stephani Long.
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