Please Select Your Gender : From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism
Patricia. Gherovici
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (297 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author; Introduction; Chapter 1 The imperative of choice; Chapter 2 The democratizing of transgenderism; Chapter 3 Genealogy of hysteria; Chapter 4 Freud's sex change; Chapter 5 Falling into sex like falling in love; Chapter 6 gender and sex as performance; Chapter 7 Boy girl boy; Chapter 8 Lacan's transsexuals; Chapter 9 Hysteria and transsexualism; Chapter 10 Writing the sinthome: The transsexual body as a written body; Conclusion; References; Index. - ""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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| ISBN | 9780415806152. - 9780415806169
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