How Sex Changed

Name: How Sex Changed
ISBN: 9780674013797

Joanne Meyerowitz writes a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States.

Trans Studies Historical Context Trans Health Medical Patriarchy Critique Gender Studies

📝 Book Review & Summary

This book belongs in FemRes because it places trans life, queer politics, and feminist questions on the same map instead of treating trans experience as a “special issue” outside feminism. For readers, it helps explain how gender systems work through medicine, law, family, race, class, colonialism, media visibility, and everyday care. It shows how sex change became legible through medicine, media, personal testimony, and conflicts over what counts as sex.

It is especially useful alongside FemRes topics on Trans Feminism, Queer Theory, Bodily Autonomy, Gender Diversity, Intersectional Feminism, and Social Movements.

Publication Info

Author: Joanne Meyerowitz

Published: April 1, 2004

ISBN: 9780674013797

Language: English

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