{"product_id":"the-transsexual-empire-the-making-of-the-shemale","title":"The transsexual empire: The making of the she-male","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifteen years ago  when it was first published  \"The Transsexual Empire\" challenged the medical psychiatric definition of transsexualism as a disease and sex conversion hormones and surgery as the cure. It exposed the antifeminist stereotyping that requires candidates for transsexual surgery to prove themselves by conforming to subjective  outdated and questionable feminine roles and \"passing\" as women. Then as now  defining and treating transsexualism as a medical problem prevents the person experiencing so-called gender dissatisfaction from seeing it in a gender-challenging or feminist framework. Transsexualism goes to the question of what gender is  how to challenge it  and what reinforces gender stereotyping in a role-defined society. In the new introduction to this feminist work  Raymond discusses how these same issues are now debated in the context of transgender. Transgenderism reduces gender resistance to wardrobes  hormones  surgery and posturing - anything but real sexual equality. It assimilates the roles and definitions of masculinity and femininity  often mixing and matching  but never really moving beyond both. In a similar way  transsexualism is thought to be a radical challenge to gender roles  breaking the boundaries of gender and transgressing its rigid lines. But if the transsexual merely exchanges one gender role for another  and if the outcome of such a sex reassignment is to endorse a femininity which  in many transsexuals  becomes a caricature of much that feminists have rejected about many-made femininity  then where is the challenge  the transgression  and the breaking of any real boundaries? This book will be used as a text in womens studies  psychology  sociology  technology and public policy  as well as by medical students  law students  and all who have an interest in feminist issues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984073584693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807021644","price":1527.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807021644.jpg?v=1770821651","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-transsexual-empire-the-making-of-the-shemale","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}