Becoming a visible man
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
xii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
A transsexual activist offers insights into the challenges of gender dysphoria. Born with a female body, and in a lesbian parent relationship prior to sex reassignment surgery, the author explores how we know our sex and discusses the complexities of the answer for those whose sex and gender are mismatched, examining medical options, psychosocial and legal implications, and media representations of "transpeople."
Notes
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Phyllis R. Frye Collection.
Contents
- 1. How Do You Know?
- Coming Out
- Terminology
- Early Dialogues
- Interconnections
- 2. Initiation
- Coming of Age
- The World of Men
- Letting Go of Shame
- Taking Responsible Action
- 3. A Vision of Community
- Lou Sullivan and the FTM Group
- Unconventional Conventions
- Intolerance
- Stepping Up to the Plate
- 4. Body of Knowledge
- Access to Treatment
- Hormone Therapy
- Approaching Surgery
- "Top" Surgery
- "Bottom" Surgery
- Decisions, Decisions
- Genital Geometry
- 5. Transparent Feelings
- Denial
- Fear
- Parents and Trans Children
- Transpeople as Parents
- 6. Consummate Presence
- Desire versus Identity
- The "Threat" of Sexual Uncertainty
- Sex and Validation
- Knowing What's Desired
- 7. Visibility
- Visibility on Screen
- Visibility in Print
- The Visibility Dilemma
- Academic Debates
- Appearances
- Influencing the Course of Treatment
- 8. Willful Destiny
- Physical Proof
- Self-Determination
- Validity.