Sex changes : the politics of transgenderism / Pat Califia.

San Francisco, Calif. : Cleis Press, [1997], ©1997.

309 pages ; 22 cm

1st ed.

Copy 1. Donor: Dr Dave King.

Transsexual autobiography : the first wave -- Father figures : the gender scientists -- The backlash : transphobia in feminism -- The berdache wars and "passing women" follies : transphobia in gay academia -- Contemporary transsexual autobiography -- The invisible gender outlaws : partners of transgendered people -- Trashing the clinic and burning down the beauty parlor : activism transmutes pitiable patients into feisty gender radicals -- The future of gender and transgenderism.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index.