02744oam 2200637I 450 991045902360332120200520144314.01-135-27694-31-283-04544-397866130454470-203-87222-310.4324/9780203872222 (CKB)2560000000059911(EBL)646543(OCoLC)707067607(SSID)ssj0000472138(PQKBManifestationID)11315084(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472138(PQKBWorkID)10433316(PQKB)10508851(MiAaPQ)EBC646543(Au-PeEL)EBL646543(CaPaEBR)ebr10452657(CaONFJC)MIL304544(OCoLC)707078756(EXLCZ)99256000000005991120180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlease select your gender from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism /Patricia Gherovici1st ed.New York, N.Y. :Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,2010.1 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-80616-X 0-415-80615-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.""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 reforTransgender peopleSex (Psychology)Electronic books.Transgender people.Sex (Psychology)306.76/8Gherovici Patricia.977583MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459023603321Please select your gender2227199UNINA