How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States

By Joanne J. Meyerowitz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009258
• ISBN13: 9780674009257
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.1"