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Autore |
Gherovici Patricia |
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Titolo |
Please select your gender : from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism / / Patricia Gherovici |
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New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-27693-5 |
1-135-27694-3 |
1-283-04544-3 |
9786613045447 |
0-203-87222-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Transgender people |
Sex (Psychology) |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The imperative of choice -- The democratizing of transgenderism -- Genealogy of hysteria -- Freud's sex change -- Falling into sex like falling in love -- Gender and sex as performance -- Boy girl boy -- Lacan's transsexuals -- Hysteria and transsexualism -- Writing the sinthome: the transsexual body as a written body. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""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 refor |
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