Patricia Gherovici

Please Select Your Gender

From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780415806169
• ISBN-10: 041580616X
• Artikelnr.: 27370209

Autorenporträt

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D., is an analyst in private practice and founding member and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar. She has published in numerous journals and collections, including the foreword to Erotic Anger: A User's Manual (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and, most recently, The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003), winner of the Gradiva Award and the 2004 Boyer Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Imperative of Choice. The Democratizing of
Transgenderism. Genealogy of Hysteria. Freud's Sex Change. Falling into Sex
Like Falling in Love. Gender and Sex as Performance. Boy Girl Boy. Lacan's
Transsexuals. Hysteria and Transsexualism. Writing the Sinthome: The
Transsexual Body as a Written Body. Conclusion.