Murder in the Collective

Wilson, B.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Womens Press

<p>Fifteen 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stereotyping that requires candidates for transsexual surgery to prove themselves by conforming to subjective, outdated and questionable feminine roles and "passing" as women.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 women's studies, psychology, sociology, technology and public policy, as well as by medical students, law students, and all who have an interest in feminist issues.</p>

Transsexual Empire

Politics & Social Sciences

RAYMOND, JANICE G.

Social Sciences

Velma Henry has always been a fighter, but she has fallen on hard times. Exhausted by her political struggles, she is undergoing healing in the Southwest Community Infirmary. Confronting her there is Minnie Ransom, spinster and fabled vehicle of the spirit world.

The Salt Eaters

Literature & Fiction

Toni Cade Bambara

Contemporary

In this collection of fantasy, science fiction and horror stories, the witch, the vampiress, the femme fatale and the vengeful goddess spring to life.

Women As Demons : The Male Perception of Women Through Space and Time

Lee/Tanith

Science Fiction & Fantasy

<p>A collection of stories translated from the Urdu by Tahira Naqvi and Syeda S. Hameed.</p>

The Quilt and Other Stories

Chugtai

Breaking Silence Lesbian Nuns on Convent Sexuality

Rosemary Curb

A retelling of a classic Greek myth from a woman's point of view, woven into a contemporary narrative of how a young Greek-American woman learns both to listen and understand the story of her mother's life. A debut novel.

Priest Fainted

Davidson, Catherine Temma

The Naturalists

Smith, Diane

Gwen's husband, Edgar, walks out on their marriage in pursuit of excitement. The requisite red convertible, however, leads not to eternal youth but to a premature death by the 8.20 eastbound train. The story then follows Gwen and her uncharacteristic behaviour in the wake of Edgar's death.

Getting over Edgar

This is the story of three generations of women who live with the conflict of their own genius as mathematicians, and the competing responsibilities of bringing up and relating to their own children.

Leaning Towards Infinity

Sue Woolfe

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