Androgyne

Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. Usually used to describe characters or persons which have no specific gender, gender ambiguity may also be found in fashion, gender identity, sexual identity, or sexual lifestyle.

In the case of gender identity, terms such as genderqueer, or gender neutral are more commonly used.

Plan B
Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (Feminist Issues : Practice Politics, Theory)
Orlando
Eternal Shadow
The Devil's Right Hand (Dante Valentine, #3)
Tipping the Velvet
Raptor
Middlesex
The Privilege of the Sword (Riverside, #2)
The Left Hand of Darkness
Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
The Changeling
Freedom & Necessity
The Monk
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Diverse Genre Romances
278 books — 77 voters
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Androgynous Girl on the Cover
37 books — 7 voters

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Favorite Androgynous Cover
38 books — 41 voters
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCarry On by Rainbow RowellEnsoulment by Nick  AskewThe Sword Of Summer by Rick Riordan
Queer SciFi/Fantasy Fiction
98 books — 34 voters


Virginia Woolf
But the sight of the two people getting into the taxi and the satisfaction it gave me made me also ask whether there are two sexes in the mind corresponding to the two sexes in the body, and whether they also require to be united in order to get complete satisfaction and happiness? And I went on amateurishly to sketch a plan of the soul so that in each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain the woman pr ...more
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Cristy C. Road
I kept my identity to myself as soon as I found it. I had seen it before, in cartoon characters...Big Bird and the Brave Little Toaster. They didn't have to be a young girl or a young boy with dark insecurities and stigmatized daydreams. They could transcend ambiguously between boy, girl, hero, villain, martyr. ...more
Cristy C. Road, Spit and Passion

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