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

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

9780203872222 (electronic book)
0203872223 (electronic book)
9780415806152
0415806151
9780415806169
041580616X

New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, [2010]

©2010

English

1 online resource (xv, 280 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).

HQ77.9 .G43 2010eb

306.76/8

"Is transgenderism a mental disorder, as some would claim, or a matter of sexual identity? An orientation or a life choice? Despite differing opinions, transgenderism has lost much of its stigma over the past decade or so - though perhaps none of its shock value. Nevertheless, the door is open for a reformulation of the hysterical question, "Am I a man or a woman?"" "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. She traverses historical, theoretical, and clinical grounds to explore what has been termed the "democratizing of gender"--For what could be more democratic than the choice of one's own gender, now able to be changed on demand?" "Arguing for the depathologization of transgenderism, Please Select Your Gender aims to revise current notions of human sexuality in general. In doing so, it challenges the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with questions typically addressed only indirectly, but which are themselves transforming how analysis is done, advancing new ideas for the clinic that can be extrapolated to social and intellectual contexts in an effort to engage the broader dialogues of gender and sexuality."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-269) and index.

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