Transsexualism in Society

by Frank Lewins

In Transsexualism in Society Dr Lewins challenges medical and feminist models of transsexualism as well as current thinking about gender and sexuality. Drawing on interviews with fifty transsexuals, he demonstrates that becoming a woman is a process rather than a decision. He locates transsexuals in the wider society and shows that the possibility of a range of socially invisible psycho-sexual identities other than 'heterosexual masculine man' and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0732930448
• ISBN13: 9780732930448
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"