Annotated Bibliography

Newfield, E., Hart, S., Dibble, S., & Kohler, L. (2006). Female-to-male transgender quality of life. Quality of Life Research, 15, 1447-1457. Retrieved April 5, 2016.

This published journal article examines the quality of life through testing and research for FTM transgender individuals. These tests involved the quality of life scale and testing many individual trans men. In their research, they found conclusively that having top surgery increases a trans man's quality of life. They also ran the statistics in order to make sure variables like education and economic status weren't issues getting in the way of the data. Even with all factors aside, the quality of life for those post-op were dramatically better. This is an interesting source for my Wikipedia page because it notes facts and studies about the effects of top surgery on individuals, whereas the rest of the page specifically discusses the procedures themselves and the medial side of the surgery. This takes a clearly different look at the topic and adds more variety of information to the page. Just as well, this is a secondary source, published through a scholarly journal, making it clearly part of Wikipedia's acceptable sources.

Erickson-Schroth, L. (2014). Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press.

This book is full of useful and detailed information about many trans related things and concepts, but most importantly, it details out many important trans-related surgeries, including top surgeries. Not just that, but it focuses an entire section (including pictures) on the double incision procedure for top surgery. The author describes the two incisions that are made above and below the breast tissue, how the tissue is removed, and how the two incisions are then brought together and sewn shut. She continues by explaining the process of nipple grafts and the idea of taking a piece of nipple from the original tissue and grafting it back on to where it looks best on the new chest. This source is particularly important for me because my article, as it stands now, has no information on both double incision and nipple grafts, making this source particularly useful. It can also be useful for filling up the sections that are already there, as it goes into a great amount of detail about other types of procedures. As a professionally published secondary source, with a credible publisher and author, this book also meets the Wikipedia acceptable source guidelines.

Richardson, N. (2012). Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture. Ashgate Publishing.

This book by Niall Richardson explores all bodies and types that are "out of the norm" throughout time and cultures. At one point, however, he explicitly describes the importance of the documentary Trantasia: Tears, Tiaras, and Transexuals along with the transgender porn star Buck Angel being in the public spotlight. This is something very important to my article because there is no mention of top surgery or references to it in popular culture, prompting me to add a section for the few and far between references and appearances of such a topic. However, this part of the book helps me to identify more information for that section, which is hard to come across. This is a book published by a reputable publishing agency and by a notable author, therefore, it meets Wikipedia's guidelines for acceptable sources.