Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing

Type

Book

Authors

Shelley, Christopher Acton

ISBN 10

0802095399

ISBN 13

9780802095398

Tags

Non-Fiction, Trans, Transgender, Social Studies, Gender Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Political Studies, Cultural Studies

Description

Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines why so many transpeople are treated with such prejudice from a broad range of the socio-political spectrum, and how society can - and must - improve its understanding of transpeople and trans-related issues.

Shelley's study of discrimination and acceptance uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes in-depth interviews with ten male-to-female and ten female-to-male transpeople, along with psychological, feminist, and political theory. He studies both the inadvertent challen...

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