Sex Changes: Transgender Politics - Softcover

Califia, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573441805 ISBN 13: 9781573441803

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2003

Synopsis

Pat Califia needs no introduction for lesbian and gay readers. His writings on sexuality, pornography, censorship, S/M and other controversial topics have earned him the reputation of a fearless defender of the rights of gays and lesbians and a fearless intellectual adversary. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism is Califia s meticulously researched analysis of the contemporary history of transsexuality. Based on in-depth interviews with gender transgressors who "opened their lives, minds, hearts, and bedrooms to the gaze of strangers," this book combines a well thought-out chronology with Pat Califia s hallmark candor and insight.

Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines the lives of early transgender pioneers like Christine Jorgenson, Jan Morris, Renee Richards and Mark Rees, contemporary transgender activists like Leslie Feinberg and Kate Bornstein, and partners of transgendered people like Minnie Bruce Pratt.

Califia scrutinizes feminist resistance to transsexuals, the Christian Right s backlash, and the appropriation of the berdache and other differently-gendered people by gay historians. Finally, Sex Changes explores the future of gender.

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About this title

Review:

Patrick Califia has been hailed as a "revolutionary antidote to America's growing sexual conservatism"

About the Author:

PATRICK CALIFIA--formerly Pat Califia--is the author of "Speaking Sex to Power," "Public Sex," and "Sensuous Magic." He lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1573441805
• ISBN 13: 9781573441803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300