CHANGING SEX

Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century. By addressing the significance of me dical technology to the phenomenon of transsexualism, Bernice L. Hausman transforms current conceptions of transsexuality as a disor der of gender identity by showing how developments in medical knowledge and technology make possible the emergence of new subjectivi ties. Hausmans inquiry into the development of endocrinology and plastic surgery shows how advances in medical knowledge were centr al to the...[Read more]