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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: DisseminationsPublication details: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 2003.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446266168
  • 1446266168
  • 9780819566577
  • 0819566578
  • 9780819566584
  • 0819566586
  • 1412902649
  • 9781412902649
  • 9781446211816
  • 1446211819
Uniform titles:
  • Changer de sexe. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 155.33
LOC classification:
  • HQ77.9 .C4813 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and index.

Translated from the French.

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.

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

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