Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism

by Patricia Gherovici

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041580616X
• ISBN13: 9780415806169
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"