I read passages from this book out loud to my mother, and she was able to relate to them from a feminist perspective even while she felt conflicted about my announcement that I am transsexual. I read this book when I was 16 and just coming out as an FtM to my friends and family.
I gave it five stars simply because it had such an enormous, and deeply personal, influence on me when I read it. I haven't read this book in years, and so cannot give an especially detailed review of it. Califia's first book oforiginal material in four years, Sex Changes includes an extensive bibliography and resource list. Finally, the book explores the future of gender. Writing about both male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, Califia examines the lives of early transgender pioneers like Christine Jorgenson, Jan Morris, and Mark Rees partners of transgendered people such as Minnie Bruce Pratt and contemporary transgender activists, including Leslie Feinberg and Kate Bornstein.Ĭalifia scrutinizes feminist resistance to transsexuals occupying women's space and the Christian Right's backlash against transsexuals.
But it was also a strategy for reducing gender dysphoria, part of a search for a place where I could be more of a man, or at least a different sort of woman". "My lesbianism is largely a product of my profound emotional and erotic involvement with other women.
Based on in-depth interviews with gender transgressors who "opened their lives, minds, hearts, and bedroom to the gaze of strangers", this book combines a well-thought-out chronology with Pat Califia's hallmark candor and insight. So begins Pat Califia's honest, meticulously researched analysis of the contemporary history of transsexuality. Barbie got to wear Ken's suit and had a series of mad adventures trying to rescue Ken with her sidekick, a troll doll with bright green hair". As a small child, I put Ken in Barbie's formal, tied him up, and stuck him back in the box. Transgenderism is a hot subject, with books by Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, and others garnering national attentionThis work springs from my own profound discomfort with gender. Ground-breaking work on gender transgression by one of the most provocative lesbian authors in the U.S.
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