"How Sex Changed" is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical
history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz
tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and
unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last
century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies
of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex
itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all.
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,
Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality.
She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves,
as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists,
journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists, as
they debated the big questions of medical ethics, nature versus
nurture, self and society, and the scope of human rights.
In this story of transsexuality, Meyerowitz shows how new
definitions of sex circulated in popular culture, science,
medicine, and the law, and she elucidates the tidal shifts in our
social, moral, and medical beliefs over the twentieth century, away
from sex as an evident biological certainty and toward an
understanding of sex as something malleable and complex. "How Sex
Changed" is an intimate history that illuminates the very changes
that shape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality
today.
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