Please select your gender from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism

""I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles.""Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender....

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Otros Autores: Gherovici, Patricia., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2010.
Edición:1st ed
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Sumario:""I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles.""Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is it a mental disorder, as some would claim, or a matter of sexual identity? An orientation or a life choice? Despite differing opinions, transgenderism has lost much of its stigma over the past decade or so - though perhaps none of its shock value. Nevertheless, the door is open for a refor
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (297 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781135276935
9781135276942
9781283045445
9786613045447
9780203872222