| Description |
xxiv, 355 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The hands of God : conversation with Ben Barres, M.D., Ph.D. -- Through science to justice : conversation with Susan Stryker, Ph.D -- The bombshell : conversation with Aleshia Brevard -- Men and women, boys and girls : conversation with Chelsea Goodwin and Rusty Mae Moore, Ph.D -- Liberating the rainbow : conversation with Tom Kennard -- Childhood, interrupted : conversation with Dana Beyer, M.D. -- Fear of a pink planet : conversation with Joanna Clark |
| Summary |
"When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to try to understand the reasons for her friend's decision to inject testosterone and undergo a mastectomy in order to live as a man. Coming at the subject from several angles - historical, sociological, psychological, medical - Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new; that changing one's gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years; and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain." |
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"Informed not only by meticulous research but also by the author's interviews with prominent members of the transgender community, The Riddle of Gender is a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-335) and index |
| Subject |
Transsexualism -- United States.
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Transsexuals -- United States -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| LC no. |
2004055297 |
| ISBN |
0375421629 |
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