Transsexualism
Subtitle: illusion and reality
By: Colette Chiland ; translated by Philip Slotkin.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Series: Disseminations
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Middletown, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Transsexualism -- Psychological aspects.; Sex change -- Psychological aspects.; Gender identity.; Transsexuals -- Identity.
Description: "Transsexualism: Illusion and Reality combines the insights of psychology, psychoanalysis, history, anthropology, sociology and personal experience to rethink transsexualism within the frames of identity, subjectivity and the wider social-historical world. Chiland's compelling text challenges readers of every sexual identity and orientation to reconsider their notions about the origins, implications, and possibilities of gender."--Jacket.
Notes: Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-186) and index.