The Sexual Century
Formerly director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Person has been a major theoretician and researcher of sexuality and gender. This book selects from 25 years of her scholarly papers, grouped into sections covering general background and theoretical frameworks. She discusses sex and gender, cross-gender disorders, sexual desire and fantasy, female and male sexual and gender patterns, and the impact of culture as seen through a portrait of Harry Benjamin and his work with transsexuals. Person's writing is thoughtful, clear, and balanced, and she incorporates a variety of research, perspectives, and disciplines. This volume would constitute an excellent introduction to the history of psychoanalytic theories of sex and gender from Freud to the present, with some attention to balancing male with female theory. For academic and large public libraries, particularly with collections on psychology and psychoanalysis, sexuality, gender, homosexuality, and transgender phenomena.AMartha Cornog, PhiladelphiaCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.