Sex changes : the politics of transgenderism

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Califia, Patrick, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Cleis Press, [2003]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Gender nonconformity.
Cross-dressing.
Gender transition.
Gender identity.
Gender minorities.
Transgenderism.
Crossdressing.
Gender expression.
Transvestism.
Gender affirming surgery.
Medical care.
Gender.
Gender transition > Hormone therapy.
Gender reassignment surgery.
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.

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