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How sex changed : a history of transsexuality in the United States
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How sex changed : a history of transsexuality in the United States

Author: Joanne J Meyerowitz
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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A social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States discusses early twentieth-century sex experiments, the first sex-change operation, the issues of medical ethics and human rights, and how cultural and scientific factors redefined sexuality.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Meyerowitz, Joanne J. (Joanne Jay)
How sex changed.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002
(OCoLC)654274727
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joanne J Meyerowitz
ISBN: 0674009258 9780674009257
OCLC Number: 50589461
Description: 363 p., [19] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Sex change --
2. "Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty" --
3. From sex to gender --
4. A "fierce and demanding" drive --
5. Sexual revolutions --
6. The liberal moment --
7. The next generation.
Responsibility: Joanne Meyerowitz.
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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, Joanne Meyerowitz  Read more...

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