How is gender changed?

Author: Joanna Meyerowitz (USA)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book has won the " Stonewall Book Award" (Nonfiction) from the American Library Association and the "Best Book Award" (LGBT Nonfiction) from Publishers Weekly. From gender experiments in Europe in the early 20th century to the legendary story of Christine Jorgensen, who underwent a sex reassignment surgery in 1952 and was exposed by the media, to today's growing transgender movement, Joanna Meyerowitz guides us through the history of transgender desire. On the topic of this subject, this book is a serious work. It is a historical work, but also permeated with a social perspective. It examines the interactions between science, medicine, law, and popular culture, as well as the interactions between transgender individuals and doctors, judges, scholars, journalists, and letter writers who either supported or opposed them. It analyzes the process by which biological sex, gender, sex, and transgender desire are defined and redefined in various power relations. It shows us that terms like "sex," gender, biological sex, gender, sexuality, and transgender desire are not fixed; categories that were once considered unquestionable and clearly distinct have now gained fluidity and permeability.