Transsexualism
Illusion and Reality
Colette Chiland(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. May 2003
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8264-6771-3 (ISBN)
Description
Transsexualism is a phenomenon of our time. At other times and in other places, there have been, or still are, people not living in the sex of their origin and having a special status. In Western culture, however, hormones and surgery have become available through advances in medical science which have made sex change a reality.Colette Chiland looks at the subject of transsexualism from biological, psychoanalytic, legal and social perspectives, and shows how guidelines and practices differ throughout the world and also contradict each other within the same culture. She draws 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. Transsexuals are caught in a contradiction: while asserting that identity is a function of the sex of a soul - that is, of gender - they are not content to occupy the position of members of the other sex, but demand a bodily token of their belonging to that sex. Chiland writes with precision on complex, technical issues, while at the same time keeping the broader question of the relationship between transsexualism
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6771-3 (9780826467713)
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Person
Colette Chiland is the Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University Rene Descartes in Paris, France
Content
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 - Our Culture and Transsexualism