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Please select your gender : from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism / Patricia Gherovici.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2010.Description: 320 pISBN:
  • 9780415806169 (pbk.) :
  • 9780415806152 (hbk.) :
  • 9780415806169 (Paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.768 GHE
LOC classification:
  • HQ77.9 .G43 2010
Contents:
The imperative of choice -- The democratizing of transgenderism -- Genealogy of hysteria -- Freud\'s sex change -- Falling into sex like falling in love -- Gender and sex as performance -- Boy girl boy -- Lacan\'s transsexuals -- Hysteria and transsexualism -- Writing the sinthome: the transsexual body as a written body.
Summary: Utilizing rich clinical vignettes and elements of Lacanian theory, Patricia Gherovici demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society at large.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 306.768 GHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 209989

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The imperative of choice -- The democratizing of transgenderism -- Genealogy of hysteria -- Freud\'s sex change -- Falling into sex like falling in love -- Gender and sex as performance -- Boy girl boy -- Lacan\'s transsexuals -- Hysteria and transsexualism -- Writing the sinthome: the transsexual body as a written body.

Utilizing rich clinical vignettes and elements of Lacanian theory, Patricia Gherovici demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society at large.

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