Please select your gender : from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism / Patricia Gherovici.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2010.Description: 320 pISBN:- 9780415806169 (pbk.) :
- 9780415806152 (hbk.) :
- 9780415806169 (Paper)
- 306.768 GHE
- HQ77.9 .G43 2010
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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.