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Autore |
Chiland Colette |
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Titolo |
Transsexualism [[electronic resource] ] : illusion and reality / / Colette Chiland ; translated by Philip Slotkin |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Middletown, Ct., : Wesleyan University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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9780412902649 |
1-283-88028-8 |
1-4462-6616-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st U.S. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Transsexuals - Identity |
Gender transition - Psychological aspects |
Gender identity |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[167]-186) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Sex; Chapter 2 - Transsexualism, or Requesting a Sex Change; Chapter 3 - Changing Sex at Other Times and in Other Places; Chapter 4 - The Essence of the Masculine and of the Feminine; Chapter 5 - Children who Reject their Sex; Chapter 6 - The Unbearable Bodily Changes of Puberty; Chapter 7 - Men who Request a Sex Change; Chapter 8 - Women who Request a Sex Change; Chapter 9 - After the Sex 'Change'; Chapter 10 - Change of Civil Status; Chapter 11 - Changing what People have in their Minds; Chapter 12 - Conclusion |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Colette Chiland exhibits a masterful and encyclopedic knowledge of transsexualism, drawing together the insights of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, history, anthropology and sociology for rethinking transsexualism in terms of identity, subjectivity and the wider socio-historical world. |
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