William Vollmann - Kissing the Mask - Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, ... Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines

137. Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio , trans. and ed. John Minford (New York: Penguin Classics, 2006; orig. tales wr. ca . 1660–1715; this trans. includes only 104 tales out of almost 500).

138. Eliot Weinberger, ed., The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (New York: New Directions Publishing Corp., 2003).

H. OLD NORSE, OLD GERMAN, ANGLO-SAXON, OLD WELSH AND OLD FRENCH ITEMS

139. —, The Earliest English poems , trans. Michael Alexander, 3rd ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 1991 ed.; orig. ed. 1966; poems wr. A.D. 700–1000).

140. —, The Mabinogion , trans. Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones (London: Everyman, 1949, rev. 1993).

141. —, The Nibelungenlied , trans. A. T. Hatto (New York: Penguin, 1969 repr. of 1965 ed.; original German ed. ca . 1200).

142. —, [Snorri Sturluson?], Egil’s Saga , trans. Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards, rev. ed. (Middlesex, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1978 repr. of 1976 ed.; original Icelandic text ca . 1230).

143. —, Eyrbyggja Saga , trans. Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards, rev. ed. (Middlesex, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1989 rev. repr. of 1972 ed.; original Icelandic text ca . 1250).

144. —, Hrafknel’s Saga , trans. Hermann Palsson (Middlesex, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1976 repr. of 1971 ed.; stories wr. thirteenth cent.)

145. —, Laxdaela Saga , trans. Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975 pbk. repr. of 1969 ed.; original Icelandic text ca . 1245).

146. —, The Poetic Edda , trans. Lee M. Hollander, 2nd ed., rev. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987 pbk. repr. of 1962 ed.; original lays ca . 800 — ca . 1400).

147. —, The Saga of Grettir the Strong , ed. Diana Whaley, various trans. (New York: Penguin Classics, 2005; orig. Icelandic text late fourteenth cent.).

148. —, The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer , trans. Jesse L. Byock (New York: Penguin Classics, 1990; orig. Icelandic text thirteenth cent.).

149. —, Sagas of Warrior-Poets , trans. Bernard Scudder, ed. Ornólfur Thorsson (New York: Penguin Classics, 2002; orig. Icelandic texts thirteenth & fourteenth cent.).

150. —, Two Viking Romances , trans. Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards (New York: Penguin Books, 1995; orig. trans. 1985; orig. tales ca. 1300).

151. Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès , trans. Burton Raffel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; orig. French ed. soon after 1169).

152. H[ilda] R[oderick] Ellis Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (London: Penguin, 1964).

153. John Lindow, Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals and Beliefs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

154. Snorri Sturluson, Edda [The Prose Edda or Younger Edda], trans. Anthony Faulkes (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. / Everyman’s Library, 1992 repr. of 1987 ed.; orig. Icelandic ed. ca . 1220–30).

155. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter , vol. I: The Bridal Wreath , trans. not credited (New York: Random House / Vintage Books, 1987 repr. of 1923 Knopf ed.; orig. Norwegian ed. 1920).

156. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter , vol. II: The Mistress of Husaby , trans. not credited (New York: Random House / Vintage Books, 1987 repr. of 1925 Knopf ed.; orig. Norwegian ed. 1921).

157. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter , vol. III: The Cross , trans. not credited (New York: Random House / Vintage Books, 1987 repr. of 1927 Knopf ed.; orig. Norwegian ed. 1922).

I. TRANSGENDER ITEMS

158. Mariette Pathy Allen, The Gender Frontier (Heidelberg: Kehrr Verlag, 2003).

159. Jonathan Ames, ed., Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs (New York: A Vintage Original, 2005).

160. Amnesty International, Torture Worldwide: An Affront to Human Dignity (New York: Amnesty International Publications, 2000).

161. Charles Anders, The Lazy Crossdresser (Emeryville, California: Greenery Press, 2002).

162. Jennifer Finney Boylan, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders (New York: Broadway Books, 2003).

163. Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (New York: Routledge, 1998).

164. Rachel Ann Heath, The Praeger Handbook of Transsexuality: Changing Gender to Match Mindset (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers / Sex, Love and Psychology ser., 2006).

165. Michel Hurst and Robert Swope, eds., Casa Susanna (New York: powerHouse Books, 2005).

166. Samantha Kane, A Two-Tiered Existence , ed. Sarah Harding (London: Writers and Artists PLC, 1998).

167. Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Emeryville, California: Seal Press, 2006).

168. Catherine Millot, Horsexe: Essay on Transsexuality, trans. Kenneth Hylton (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1993; orig. French ed. 1983).

169. Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Do , 3rd ed. (No place of publication given: Lulu, 2008 rev. of 2004 ed.).

170. Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights (New York: Random House / Anchor Books, 2006 rev. repr. of 2005 ed.).

171. Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Berkeley, California: Seal Press, 2007).

172. Susan Stryker, Transgender History (Berkeley, California: Seal Press, 2008.)

173. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, eds., The Transgender Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2006).

174. Veronica Vera, Miss Vera’s Cross-Dress for Success: A Resource Guide for Boys Who Want to Be Girls (New York: Random House / Villard, 2002).

175. I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlote von Mahlsdorf, Berlin’s Most Distinguished Transvestite , trans. Jean Hollander (Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1995; orig. German ed. 1992).

Periodicals and DVDs

176. Danae Doyle Productions, “Feminine Movement Basic Vol. 1,” disk copyright DDP & Feminage, 2007.

177. Deep Stealth Productions, “Finding Your Female Voice” (2 disks, manufactured by CreateSource, South Valley, California, 2007). The unidentified narrator may be the same person as the one on the older video “Melanie Speaks.” But a third party (Rose, p. 127) believes her to be Andrea James.

178. Transgender Tapestry magazine, published by the International Foundation for Gender Education, www.ifge.org.

J. ANDREW WYETH

179. Wanda M. Corn, ed., The Art of Andrew Wyeth , with contributions by Brian O’Doherty, Richard Meryman and E. P. Richardson (San Francisco: pub. for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco by the New York Graphic Society Ltd., Greenwich, Connecticut; exhibited at the M. H. de Young Museum of the Fine Arts, San Francisco, June 16 — September 15, 1973).

180. Richard Meryman, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life (New York: HarperPerennial / A Division of HarperCollins, 1998 repr. of orig. 1996 ed.).

181. Andrew Wyeth, Autobiography , intro. by Thomas Hoving, with commentaries by Andrew Wyeth as told to Thomas Hoving (Boston: A Bullfinch Press Book / Little, Brown & Co., in assoc. w/ the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1998).

182. Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures , text by John Wilmerding, Deputy Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987; paintings executed 1971–85).