An edition of How Sex Changed (2002)

How sex changed

a history of transsexuality in the United States

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An edition of How Sex Changed (2002)

How sex changed

a history of transsexuality in the United States

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"How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who have a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. Over the past century, when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
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363

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Cover of: How Sex Changed
How Sex Changed
2009, Harvard University Press
in English
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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
April 1, 2004, Harvard University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: How Sex Changed
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
October 1, 2002, Harvard University Press
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2002, Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents

Sex change
"Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty"
From sex to gender
A "fierce and demanding" drive
Sexual revolutions
The liberal moment
The next generation.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ77.95.E85 M48 2002, HQ77

The Physical Object

Pagination
363 p., [19] p. of plates :
Number of pages
363

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23240755M
Internet Archive
howsexchangedhis0000meye
ISBN 10
0674009258
LCCN
2002020536
OCLC/WorldCat
50589461
Library Thing
347237
Goodreads
1423876

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How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all.

From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today’s growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists, as they debated the big questions of medical ethics, nature versus nurture, self and society, and the scope of human rights.

In this story of transsexuality, Meyerowitz shows how new definitions of sex circulated in popular culture, science, medicine, and the law, and she elucidates the tidal shifts in our social, moral, and medical beliefs over the twentieth century, away from sex as an evident biological certainty and toward an understanding of sex as something malleable and complex. How Sex Changed is an intimate history that illuminates the very changes that shape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality today.

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