How sex changed
Subtitle: a history of transsexuality in the United States
By: Joanne Meyerowitz.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Transsexualism -- United States -- History; Transsexualism -- Europe -- History; Sex change -- United States -- History; Sex change -- Europe -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sex change; title: "Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty"; title: From sex to gender; title: A "fierce and demanding" drive; title: Sexual revolutions; title: The liberal moment; title: The next generation.