Introduction: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender -- 1. Glands, Hormones, and Personality -- 2. Plastic Ideologies and Plastic Transformations -- 3. Managing Intersexuality and Producing Gender -- 4. Demanding Subjectivity -- 5. Body, Technology, and Gender in Transsexual Autobiographies -- 6. Semiotics of Sex, Gender, and the Body
Summary:
Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century. By addressing the significance of medical technology to the phenomenon of transsexualism, Bernice L. Hausman transforms current conceptions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender identity by showing how developments in medical knowledge and technology make possible the emergence of new subjectivities.
