Sex and gender : on the development of masculinity and femininity / [by] Robert J. Stoller.
| Author/creator | Stoller, Robert J. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Science House, [1968] |
| Description | xvi, 383 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Gender transition. Stoller, Robert J. Sex and gender ; v. 1. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Patients with biological abnormalities. Biological substrates of sexual behavioir ; The intersexed patient with normal gender idenity ; The disruption of established gender identity ; The hermaphroditic identity of hermaphrodites ; The sense of maleness ; The sense of femaleness ; A biological force in gender identity? -- Patients without biological abnormalities. Male childhood transsexualism ; The mother's contribution to boyhood transsexualism ; Artistic ability and boyhood femininity ; Etiological factors in adult male transsexualism ; The transsexual's denial of homosexuality ; Identity, homosexuality, and paranoidness ; A feminine man : a control case ; A bisexual mother : a control case ; Differential diagnosis : transvestism and transsexualism ; Female (versus male) transvestism ; Transvestites' women ; Bondage and cross-dressing -- Aspects of treatment. Treatment of patients with biological abnormalities of sex ; The treatment of transvestism and transsexualism ; Moral issues in sex-transformation procedures ; Conclusion. |
| Abstract | A Freudian psychoanalyst looks at several variations from standard sex and gender: transsexuals, cross-dressers, people with unusual sex-scripts, homosexuals, bisexuals, people assigned to the wrong sex at birth, and intersex individuals. |
| Local note | Joyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, STOLLER, ROBERT J. SEX AND GENDER,SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER RC557 .S772. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: p. [363]-376. |
| LCCN | 68017263 |