Transsexualism : illusion and reality / / Colette Chiland ; translated by Philip Slotkin

• Autore: Chiland Colette
• Pubblicazione: Middletown, CT, : Wesleyan University Press, 2003; Middletown, CT : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2003
• Edizione: 1st U.S. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 193 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.768
• Soggetto topico: Transsexuals - Identity; Sex change - Psychological aspects; Gender identity; Transgender people - Identity; Transitioning (Gender)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transsexualism
• ISBN: 9780412902649; 9781283880282; 1283880288; 9781446266168; 1446266168
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954625803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Disseminations.