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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790388403321

Autore

Chiland Colette

Titolo

Transsexualism [[electronic resource] ] : illusion and reality / / Colette Chiland ; translated by Philip Slotkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Ct., : Wesleyan University Press, 2003

ISBN

9781446266168

9780412902649

1-283-88028-8

1-4462-6616-8

Edizione

[1st U.S. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 193 p.)

Collana

Disseminations

Disciplina

306.768

Soggetti

Transsexualism - Psychological aspects

Gender reassignment surgery - Psychological aspects

Gender identity

Transsexuals - Identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[167]-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

ReferencesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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.