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Please Select Your Gender : From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism.
"I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles."Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is it a men...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles."Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is it a mental disorder, as some would claim, or a matter of sexual identity? An orientation or a life choice? Despite differing opinions, transgenderism has lost much of its stigma over the past decade or so - though perhaps none of its shock value. Nevertheless, the door is open for a reformulation of the hysterical q. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780203872222 0203872223 |