Riddle of Gender Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights

Name: Riddle of Gender Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
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ISBN: 9780385721974

ISBN-10: 0385721978

ISBN-13: 9780385721974

Edition: 2006

Authors: Deborah Rudacille

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When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles-historical, sociological, psychological, medical-Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing one's gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain. Informed not only by meticulous research, but also by the author's interviews with prominent members of the…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.98" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


The Hands of God


Through Science to Justice


The Bombshell


Men and Women, Boys and Girls


Liberating the Rainbow


Childhood, Interrupted


Fear of a Pink Planet


Answering the Riddle


Two Years Later: Afterword to the Anchor Books Edition


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index