Michael, Née Laura
Author: Liz Hodgkinson
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
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The First Man-Made Man
Author: Pagan Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-03-04
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 159691016X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA portrait of the first post-operative female-to-male, Michael Dillon, describes how Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, her efforts to feel comfortable in her own skin, her experimentation with medical technologies and procedures that would revolutionize medicine, and her life following surgery, in a story that captures the struggles of early transsexuals. Reprint.
Buddhism
Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 1911407406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Sign of the Golden Wheel tells the story of the 'middle period' of the fourteen years Sangharakshita was based in the Indian hill station, Kalimpong. It is a crucial time for Buddhism as the whole Asian world is preparing to celebrate 2,500 years of Buddhism, and Sangharakshita's abundant energies are brought into play in diverse ways.Precious Teachers covers the last period of Sangharakshita's time in Kalimpong.
How Sex Changed
Author: Joanne Meyerowitz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0674256336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all. From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today’s growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists, as they debated the big questions of medical ethics, nature versus nurture, self and society, and the scope of human rights. In this story of transsexuality, Meyerowitz shows how new definitions of sex circulated in popular culture, science, medicine, and the law, and she elucidates the tidal shifts in our social, moral, and medical beliefs over the twentieth century, away from sex as an evident biological certainty and toward an understanding of sex as something malleable and complex. How Sex Changed is an intimate history that illuminates the very changes that shape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality today.
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
Author: Nikki Sullivan
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2003-10
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0814798403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book begins by putting gay & lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged.
The Riddle of Gender
Author: Deborah Rudacille
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-07-29
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0307490165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psychological, medical–Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing one’s gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain. Informed not only by meticulous research, but also by the author’s interviews with prominent members of the transgender community, The Riddle of Gender is a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being.
Changing Sex
Author: Bernice L. Hausman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780822316923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChanging Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century. By addressing the significance of medical technology to the phenomenon of transsexualism, Bernice L. Hausman transforms current conceptions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender identity by showing how developments in medical knowledge and technology make possible the emergence of new subjectivities. Hausman's inquiry into the development of endocrinology and plastic surgery shows how advances in medical knowledge were central to the establishment of the material and discursive conditions necessary to produce the demand for sex change--that is, to both "make" and "think" the transsexual. She also retraces the hidden history of the concept of gender, demonstrating that the semantic distinction between "natural" sex and "social" gender has its roots in the development of medical treatment practices for intersexuality--the condition of having physical characteristics of both sexes-- in the 1950s. Her research reveals the medical institution's desire to make heterosexual subjects out of intersexuals and indicates how gender operates semiotically to maintain heterosexuality as the norm of the human body. In critically examining medical discourses, popularizations of medical theories, and transsexual autobiographies, Hausman details the elaboration of "gender narratives" that not only support the emergence of transsexualism, but also regulate the lives of all contemporary Western subjects. Changing Sex will change the ways we think about the relation between sex and gender, the body and sexual identity, and medical technology and the idea of the human.
The First Man-Made Man
Author: Pagan Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-11
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1596918314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine. Michael Dillon's incredible story, from upper-class orphan girl to Buddhist monk, reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.
Saint John Reformed Church of Riegelsville, Pa
Author: Riegelsville, Pa. Saint John Reformed Church
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Transgender Studies Reader
Author: Susan Stryker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 1135398844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.
