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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States |
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 How Sex Changed: A History of  Transsexuality in the United States
Author: Joanne Meyerowitz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674013794
Publishing Date: 2004
Pages: 400
Format: Softcover
This is a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the US. It tells a human story about people who had a deep and unshakeable desire to transform their bodily sex.
About the AuthorJoanne Meyerowitz is Professor of History at Indiana University and Editor of the Journal of American History. Review"Examines changing definitions of gender through the prism of transsexuality, that most mysterious of conditions in which a person is born with normal chromosomes and hormones for one sex but is convinced that he or she is a member of the other. Dr. Meyerowitz shows how mutable the words 'male,' 'female,' 'sex,' and 'gender' have become, and how their meanings have evolved through time. Hers is one of several new books on the subject of the transgendered... In terms of the scientific quandary of gender, [this book] is the most important." - Dinitia Smith, New York Times; "A sober, comprehensive cultural history that... is likely to become a standard reference in the field... One of its great strengths is its examination of the intersection and interaction of science and culture." Julia M. Klein, The Nation
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