Transsexualism
Author: Colette Chiland
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780819566584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first English translation of a defining study of transsexualism.
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Second Skins
Author: Jay Prosser
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the power of autobiographical narrative in interpreting transsexuality. Focusing on the union of body and narrative, the author conveys how transsexuality has been moulded by autobiographical acts.
Recognizing Transsexuals
Author: Zowie Davy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1317070607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics. Exploring the reasons for which transpeople desire to modify their bodies, it moves away from the focus on gender that characterizes much work on transpeople's embodiment, to investigate the concept of bodily aesthetics. Recent legislation allowing transsexuals to apply for gender recognition provides the context in which transpeople challenge the conventional understandings of what it means to be men and women. The book examines key approaches to recognizing transsexualism from within a variety of fields and considers transsexuals' bodies, body projects and embodiment in relation to personal, political and medico-legal fields. It explores the ways in which transpeople's bodily aesthetics affect social relations - such as sexual relations, acceptance by others and their families - whilst also considering contemporary political trans community organizations and their public representation of trans-bodies. Recognizing Transsexuals is the first sociological examination of how the bodies of transpeople are figured and reconfigured in socio, politico and medico-legal contexts and considers the impact of these shifts, and will be of interest to those with interests in embodiment, the sociology of law, sexology, medical sociology and gender theory.
FTM: Female-to-male Transsexuals in Society
Author: Holly Devor
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 9780253212597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReports and analyzes results of interviews with 45 self-identified female-to-male transsexuals. Devor (sociology, U. of Victoria) focuses on the processes by means of which people come to identify themselves as members of a seemingly incongruous social group and them remake their lives so that they function as apparently native- born members of the group. She concludes that most issues confronted by transsexuals are neither theoretically nor practically distinct from those faced by other members of society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism
Author: Dana Jennett Bevan Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-11-17
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a biopsychologist, this book describes and explains transsexualism and transgenderism (TSTG) from a scientific vantage point. Why does a male violate cultural gender rules and dress and act as a woman? Why does a female violate cultural rules to dress and act as a man? Why do some males and females undergo radical medical procedures in order to permanently change their bodies so that they are closer, respectively, to female and male bodies? In this book, a Princeton University-trained physiological psychologist explores dozens of theories about what may spur transsexual and transgender (TSTG) thinking, exposes the myths of fetishism, homosexuality, prenatal hormones, or child rearing as causes, and explains the two causes that are supported by current science. Covering a breadth of topics that include neuroanatomy, choice, psychodynamics, and transsexual transition, author Thomas E. Bevan, PhD, synthesizes the pertinent research regarding transsexualism and transgenderism across 22 scientific disciplines. The book covers various gender systems from antiquity to historical and contemporary cultures that support the biological basis of transsexualism and transgenderism, addresses human development from the time prior to conception through adulthood and potential transsexual transition, and corrects common myths and assumptions about TSTG individuals, such as that crossdressing is basically motivated by a desire for sexual arousal. The book also includes sections that cite definitions of key terms and identify related reading, organizations for support, and current TSTG events worldwide.
Invisible Lives
Author: Viviane Namaste
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-12-15
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0226568105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines transgendered people in their everyday lives and how they are erased in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Additionally, difficulties in employment, health care, and identity papers are examined.
Transsexualism
Author: Colette Chiland
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781412902649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranssexualism is a stimulating, proactive and important book. Colette Chiland does not back away from difficult issues. She forces all of us to look at our assumptions about t5ranssexualism and to re-examine what gender and sex really mean' - Christine Ware, author of Where Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis 'In a nutshell, the book offers a much-needed alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view... Chiland's interesting and well presented book is a valued reminder of how different the same topic can appear in an alternative perspective' - Transgender Tapestry 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. This book is written with considerable precision on complex, technical issues, whilst at the same time keeping the broader question of the relationship between transsexualism and society firmly in mind.
Exploring Transsexualism
Author: Colette Chiland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 0429913486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs psychotherapeutic treatment powerless in the case of transsexualism? This intriguing volume by a French psychoanalyst with extensive experience of working with transsexuals is a useful addition to the debate on transsexualism and the definitions of sex and gender. Transsexuals feel that the opposite sex to their biological sex is their true identity - their true body and self. The idea of "hormonal and surgical sex reassignment" appeals to them; it would biologically put right what they already know to be right and true in their minds. The author discusses the problems of "reassigning" one s sex and argues that surgery alone cannot fix the situation.
Transsexualism, Medicine and Law
Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9789287128058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBundel met de teksten van de tijdens het congres gehouden toespraken en gepresenteerde papers. Bevat tevens een overzicht van de wetgeving m.b.t. transseksualiteit in Oostenrijk, Duitsland, Italië, Nederland, Zweden en Turkije.
The Transsexual Delusion
Author: G. Eugene Pichler
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-07-04
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1365237249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his book Pichler looks at transsexualism as a behavioral addiction, much like a sex addiction, Internet addiction or pathological gambling addiction, which is caused by a faulty reward system in the human brain. Pichler further reports that the medications that effectively treat behavioral addictions show good results in treating transsexualism. In fact modern research shows that the drugs that effectively treat epilepsy treat behavioral addictions, including transsexualism.
