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

"Is transgenderism 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gherovici, Patricia (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2010.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40499558*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The imperative of choice
  • The democratizing of transgenderism
  • Genealogy of hysteria
  • Freud's sex change
  • Falling into sex like falling in love
  • Gender and sex as performance
  • Boy girl boy
  • Lacan's transsexuals
  • Hysteria and transsexualism
  • Writing the sinthome: the transsexual body as a written body.