Please select your gender : from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism / / Patricia Gherovici

• Autore: Gherovici Patricia
• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/8
• Soggetto topico: Transgender people; Sex (Psychology)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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
• Titolo autorizzato: Please select your gender
• ISBN: 1-135-27693-5; 1-135-27694-3; 1-283-04544-3; 9786613045447; 0-203-87222-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791873903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II