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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
2010.
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Edición: | 1st ed |
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797953306719 |
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 |
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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 |