Transsexualism : illusion and reality
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Transsexualism : illusion and reality
（Disseminations : psychoanalysis in contexts）
Continuum, 2003
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Translated from the French
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Description
`Transsexualism 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 transsexualism and to re-examine what gender and sex really mean' - Christine Ware, author of Where Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis
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.
Table of Contents
Sex
Transsexualism, or Requesting a Sex Change
Changing Sex at Other Times and in Other Places
The Essence of the Masculine and of the Feminine
Children who Reject their Sex
The Unbearable Bodily Changes of Puberty
Men who Request a Sex Change
Women who Request a Sex Change
After the Sex 'Change'
Change of Civil Status
Changing what People Have in their Minds
Conclusion
Our Culture and Transsexualism
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