Sex changes : the politics of transgenderism
This book combines the author's contemporary history of transsexuality with his criticism of mainstream sex culture. Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, the author examines the lives of early transgender pioneers and contemporary transgender activists. In this new...
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: | This book combines the author's contemporary history of transsexuality with his criticism of mainstream sex culture. Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, the author examines the lives of early transgender pioneers and contemporary transgender activists. In this new edition, he speaks about changing his gender identity from female to male and becoming a parent in a two-father household. |
| Physical Description: | xlvii, 299 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index. |
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San Francisco :
Cleis Press,
[2003]
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| ISBN: | 1573441805 9781573441803 |
Table of Contents:
- Spare changes : why and how this book came into being
- Transsexual autobiography : the first wave
- Father figures : the gender scientists
- The backlash : transphobia in feminism
- The berdache wars and "passing women" follies : transphobia in gay academia
- Contemporary transsexual autobiography
- The invisible gender outlaws : partners of transgendered people
- Trashing the clinic and burning down the beauty parlor : activism transmutes pitiable patients into feisty gender radicals
- The future of gender and transgenderism.