Response to Middlesex Books 3 and 4, and Christine Jorgenson Documents
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
“Can transvestites be cured?” asked Time in an article reporting on Christine Jorgensen (Peiss, 375). If the article were about Cal, perhaps the question asked would be: Can hermaphrodites be cured? Within these questions lies the assumption that these things – these genders – need to be cured. “In some cases of transvestitism, as in […]
Response to Middlesex Books 3 and 4, and Christine Jorgenson Documents
Tags: acceptance, binary, essentialism, gender roles, happiness, Hermaphrodites, homosexuality, identity, Jeffrey Weeks, scientia sexualis, sexual orientation, social construction, social constructivism, transvestites
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