Transsexualism And Sex Reassignment

Author : Richard Green,John Money
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052392894

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Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment by Richard Green,John Money Pdf

Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest stages, it was discussed as a volume that would embody the findings of the research group working directly under the auspices of the Foundation. it soon became evident that such a limitation would make the book unnecessarily parochial. It would, for example, have excluded those patients who were treated and operated at the newly constituted John Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic and who were not also patients in the Harry Benjamin Foundation research study, as well as the important body of work being done elsewhere, especially in Europe.

Author : Richard Green,John Money
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052392894

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Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment by Richard Green,John Money Pdf

Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest stages, it was discussed as a volume that would embody the findings of the research group working directly under the auspices of the Foundation. it soon became evident that such a limitation would make the book unnecessarily parochial. It would, for example, have excluded those patients who were treated and operated at the newly constituted John Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic and who were not also patients in the Harry Benjamin Foundation research study, as well as the important body of work being done elsewhere, especially in Europe.

Author : William A. W. Walters,Michael W. Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015036155631

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Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment by William A. W. Walters,Michael W. Ross Pdf

This book describes the factors that determine gender identity and explains how and why transsexualism may develop. The contributors discuss medical, ethical, legal, social, and personal aspects, providing a benchmark in the understanding and management of the transsexual experience.

Author : Joanne Meyerowitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674040960

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How Sex Changed by Joanne Meyerowitz Pdf

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.

Author : Patrick Califia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019292114

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Sex Changes by Patrick Califia Pdf

Springing from the author's "own profound discomfort with gender", this honest, meticulously researched analysis on the contemporary history of transsexuality features in-depth interviews with gender transgressors who "opened their lives, minds, hearts, and bedrooms to the gaze of strangers". Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines the lives of Christine Jorgenson, Jan Morris, Kate Bornstein, and others.

Author : Bryan Tully
Publisher : Whiting & Birch Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UVA:X002600388

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Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality by Bryan Tully Pdf

Author : Richard F. Docter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461309970

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Transvestites and Transsexuals by Richard F. Docter Pdf

The objective of this book is to propose a theory of transvestism and secondary transsexualism, and to provide information concerning these behaviors. My view of these topics is much like that of Benjamin (1966) and nearly all other gender researchers. It holds that a syndrome of similar behaviors can be identified, ranging from fetishism through transvestism, transgenderism, and secondary transsexualism. But de scription is one thing and explanation of causes is another. I agree with other gender researchers (e. g. , Green & Money, 1969; Stoller, 1985c) who have concluded that the causes of transvestism and transsexualism re main largely unknown. But the fact that we cannot fully explain the origins of transvestism or secondary transsexualism does not mean that a comprehensive theory is impossible. Indeed, excellent theoretical statements have been proposed concerning each of these topics (Ban croft, 1972; Buckner, 1970; Buhrich & McConaghy, 1977a; Money & Ehrhardt, 1972; Ovesey & Person, 1973, 1976; Person & Ovesey, 1974a,b; Stoller, 1968a, 1974, 1985c). It is with considerable respect, therefore, that we acknowledge both the strong shoulders on which we stand, and also the more practical fact that we have drawn heavily upon the many contributions of these researchers. The approach I have adopted has the same scientific difficulties that confronted all of these previous workers.

Author : Abigail Shrier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684510467

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Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier Pdf

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES "Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.

Author : Dallas Denny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134821105

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Current Concepts in Transgender Identity by Dallas Denny Pdf

First published in 1998. This meaningful study looks at the transsexual experience from the point of view of those that are living experts, those that live transsexualism or cross-dressing and have been directly affected.

Author : Gordene Olga MacKenzie
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0879725966

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Transgender Nation by Gordene Olga MacKenzie Pdf

Looks at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociological and sociopolitical perspective, arguing that it is not the individual transgenderists who are sick and need treatment, but the society that condemns them. Considers the history of the transgender movement, categories of sex, and contemporary medical and popular ideology. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Holly Devor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Female-to-male transsexuals
ISBN : 0253336317

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FTM: Female-to-male Transsexuals in Society by Holly Devor Pdf

FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five female-to-male transsexuals. Until now, little has been known about these individuals, and questions persist about them. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as transsexual? What do they do about it? How do their families cope? Who loves them? What does it mean for the rest of us? To answer these and other questions, Holly Devor spent many years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgendered people, many of whom became her friends. She traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce in transsexual identity, culminating in gender and sex transformation. After an introduction which grounds the discussion in historical and theoretical contexts, the author takes a life course approach to understanding female-to-male transsexualism. Using her subjects' own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescent, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify female-to-male transsexuals' images of themselves as people who should be men.

Author : Colette Chiland
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0819566586

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Transsexualism by Colette Chiland Pdf

The first English translation of a defining study of transsexualism.

Author : Bernice L. Hausman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822316927

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Changing Sex by Bernice L. Hausman Pdf

Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century. By addressing the significance of medical technology to the phenomenon of transsexualism, Bernice L. Hausman transforms current conceptions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender identity by showing how developments in medical knowledge and technology make possible the emergence of new subjectivities. Hausman's inquiry into the development of endocrinology and plastic surgery shows how advances in medical knowledge were central to the establishment of the material and discursive conditions necessary to produce the demand for sex change--that is, to both "make" and "think" the transsexual. She also retraces the hidden history of the concept of gender, demonstrating that the semantic distinction between "natural" sex and "social" gender has its roots in the development of medical treatment practices for intersexuality--the condition of having physical characteristics of both sexes-- in the 1950s. Her research reveals the medical institution's desire to make heterosexual subjects out of intersexuals and indicates how gender operates semiotically to maintain heterosexuality as the norm of the human body. In critically examining medical discourses, popularizations of medical theories, and transsexual autobiographies, Hausman details the elaboration of "gender narratives" that not only support the emergence of transsexualism, but also regulate the lives of all contemporary Western subjects. Changing Sex will change the ways we think about the relation between sex and gender, the body and sexual identity, and medical technology and the idea of the human.

Author : Anne A. Lawrence
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461451822

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Men Trapped in Men's Bodies by Anne A. Lawrence Pdf

There are few topics in sex research as compelling and confounding to researchers, clinicians, and the general public as that of transsexualism. Upending normative notions of gender, eroticism, and identity, it poses significant scientific and clinical challenges. The book addresses a fascinating and largely unexplored topic within the study of transsexualism: The feelings and desires of conventionally masculine men who are attracted to women yet want to become women themselves. Through a collection and discussion of vivid first-person narratives, the book provides an in-depth examination of these men's unusual propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of themselves as women and how these men's sexual feelings influence their decisions to seek or undergo sex reassignment. These narratives about autogynephilia by autogynephilic male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals provide the first comprehensive documentation of the erotic ideation that underlies the most common form of MtF transsexualism. The narratives provide empirical evidence for Blanchard's theory of MtF transsexual motivation, and thus are of interest to researchers and theorists studying the phenomenology of MtF transsexualism. The narratives are likely to be eye-opening to psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and other professionals who work with MtF transsexuals: Most clinicians probably do not fully appreciate the erotic underpinnings of their clients' condition. A better understanding of their clients' autogynephilic feelings and motivations would enable these professionals to provide more empathetic and effective clinical care.

Author : Richard Ekins,Dave King
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446238912

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The Transgender Phenomenon by Richard Ekins,Dave King Pdf

"Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further during the twenty first century." - Ken Plummer, University of Essex "An outstanding survey of the evolution of trans phenomena, splendidly written, highly informative, scholarly at its best, yet easy to read even for those neither trans nor sociologist. Ekins and King, experts in the field, unroll the panoramas of sex, gender, and transgendering that have evloved during the last decades. For everyone wanting to understand the interaction of women and men and of those who cannot or will not identify with either of these two cataegories, reading this book is a must, and a real pleasure." - Friedmann Pfaefflin, University of ULM This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid illustrative material. Based on two decades of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the world, the authors distinguish a number of contemporary transgendering ′stories′ to illustrate: The binary male/female divide The interrelations betwen sex, sexuality and gender The interrelations between the main sub-processes of transgendering. Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an original and innovative conceptual framkework for understanding the full range of the transgender experience.