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Sex changes : the politics of transgenderism / Pat Califia.

Title
Sex changes : the politics of transgenderism / Pat Califia.
Author
Califia, Patrick, 1954-
Publication
San Francisco, Calif. : Cleis Press, ©1997.

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309 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines the lives of early transgender pioneers like Christine Jorgenson, Jan Morris and Mark Rees, and contemporary transgender activists like Kate Bornstein.
Subject
  • Gender nonconformity
  • Cross-dressing
  • Gender transition
  • Gender identity
  • Transsexualism
  • Transgender Persons
  • Sex Reassignment Procedures
  • Gender Identity
  • Transvestism
  • Transgenrisme
  • Travestisme
  • Transition de genre
  • Identité sexuelle
  • transgenderism
  • sex role
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Transsexual autobiography : the first wave -- Father figures : the gender scientists -- The backlash : transphobia in feminism -- The berdache wars and "passing women" follies : transphobia in gay academia -- Contemporary transsexual autobiography -- The invisible gender outlaws : partners of transgendered people -- Trashing the clinic and burning down the beauty parlor : activism transmutes pitiable patients into feisty gender radicals -- The future of gender and transgenderism.
ISBN
  • 1573440728
  • 9781573440721
LCCN
  • 97019966
  • 9781573440721
OCLC
  • 36824894
  • SCSB-12561447
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