This month's Books of the Month list features works authored or edited by faculty, focusing on gender, sexuality and societal norms. Learn more about queer theory, the history of hormone replacement therapy and how topics like gender and sexuality are treated in rural areas.

Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity by Bob Ostertag, a professor of cinema and digital media. Ostertag examines the development of estrogen and testosterone as pharmaceuticals. He situates this history alongside the story of an increasingly visible and political lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population. He argues that scholarship on the development of sex hormone chemicals does not take into account LGBT history and activism.