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The riddle of gender : science, activism, and transgender rights / Deborah Rudacille.

by Rudacille, Deborah.

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Anchor Books, 2006.

Transgender people -- Interviews.

Sexual orientation.

Gender identity.

9780385721974 (pbk.)

0385721978 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Gender : science, activism, and transgender rights

1st Anchor Books ed.

xxiv, 369 p. ; 21 cm.

"Originally published in a slightly different form in 2005 by Pantheon Books, an imprint of Random House.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The hands of God : conversation with Ben Barres, M.D., Ph. D. -- Through science to justice : conversation with Susan Stryker, Ph. D. -- The bombshell : conversation with Aleshia Brevard -- Men and women, boys and girls : conversation with Chelsea Goodwin and Rusty Mae Moore, Ph. D. -- Liberating the rainbow : conversation with Tom Kennard -- Childhood, interrupted: conversation with Dana Beyer, M.D. -- Fear of a pink planet : conversation with Joanna Clark -- Answering the riddle -- Two years later : afterword to the Anchor Books edition.

"When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles -- historical, sociological, psychological, medical -- Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing one's gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain. A sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being"--Publisher description.

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