How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States Format:Paperback a personal and impassioned history

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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States Format:Paperback a personal and impassioned historyHow Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all.