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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States

by Joanne Meyerowitz

Harvard Univ. 2004. 400p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780674013797. pap. $28.50.

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In this social, legal, and medical history of transsexuality in the 20th century, Meyerowitz uses Christine Jorgensen's story (with its emphasis on gender confirmation surgery) as a linchpin to detail how scientists and the popular imagination began to make distinctions between sex and gender. The oldest book on this list, it no longer feels as contemporary as it did a decade ago, but it remains valuable. (LJ 9/1/02)

Reviewed by K.R. Roberto , Jun 01, 2016

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