About this title: The author of "The Scalpel and the Butterfly" offers a timely examination of the transgender movement that calls into question some of the most fundamental assumptions about gender identity.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375421624ISBN:0375421629
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2006-02-14
ISBN-13:9780385721974ISBN:0385721978
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780385721974ISBN:0385721978
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 2005-02-08
ISBN-13:9780375421624ISBN:0375421629
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780375421624. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375421624ISBN:0375421629
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"Wow. I am very interested in the topics of sex and gender and sexuality. Reading this book was an enlightening experience. The title is fitting as the author does talk about the potential neurobiological, genetic, and environmental contributors to the understanding of one's own gender. She also talks about the context of our lives - we can't separate ourselves from the culture we've grown up in and which surrounds us almost every moment.
So some nature vs. nuture discussions happening. The author does interviews with some people who identify as trans in some way, or have felt that way in the past (maybe before their transition). I love hearing people explain about their experiences in and perspectives on life.
"This is also a good book, this has a lot of history in it. It's amazing to know about the other individuals throughout history who lived opposite the gender they were born. The woman who wrote this book did so because a friend transitioned and she wanted to know more. This is also good one to give to family and friends."
"this book had a lot of really good information in it and i learned a lot.
my biggest annoyance with the book is that the author was all over the map sometimes. she didn't really stay focused and followed a lot of rabbit trails which, while very interesting, really strayed from her premise of writing about transgender people and trans rights.
but the science of the book was fascinating and i learned about a lot of things that i hadn't read about before. so overall i would recommend this book, but i still wish she had stayed on topic a little better."
"When I was in college I took a course called "Women and Men in American Society." Despite that title, we really studied issues of race, class, and gender. However, one of the things we really never covered were transgender issues. Later I watched the films "Boys Don't Cry" and "Transamerica" but still felt rather uneducated until I crossed paths with this book.
Turns out that transgendered folks are the bastard stepchild of the LGBT movement-when any anti-discrimination laws are passed, they are always passed without a transgender clause, as the gay community feels that a trans clause would kill any chance of the law passing.
Did you know that the transgendered group started the Stonewall riots in 1969? This book gives us a wealth of really interesting historical information, including the story behind the first doctor to study alternative sexualities in Germany during the Weimar period (the first to separate homosexuality, transsexuals and cross-dressing as three separate things), whose work was later obliterated by the Nazis; and the intriguing case for DES, a chemical very similar to DDT that was given to pregnant women from approximately 1945-1979 to prevent miscarriage, sometime unbeknownst to them in the form of "pregnancy vitamins," but yielded bad results for the mother's offspring: a cluster of young women contracting a form of cancer that was previously seen only rarely, and in older women, and which could possibly also be related to male to female transexuality. Another fascinating chapter discussed treatments for children who were born with ambiguous genitalia, medical theory demanding at the time to raise that child strictly as one gender, executing several genital surgeries to "normalize" their genitalia without informing the child what was happening; only to have the adult child feel as they grow up that their body is at odds with their real gender. Interviews include professionals who transitioned after their academic career was established, a woman who had two successful military careers until word got out that her name used to be "Michael," and activists who have been around since Stonewall.
Biology is full of variance-we all cannot be neatly placed in one of two categories. Even people who have female genitalia sometimes have what are stereotypically "male" personality characteristics and vice-versa.
This was a completely fascinating book, and one that I wouldn't have otherwise chosen for myself if my fellow Bookcrosser hadn't suggested it to me. Thank you!"
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