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Stephen Whittle : "The Transgender Debate: The Crisis Surrounding Gender Identities", Garnet
Publishing Ltd, March 2000.
ISBN 1 -902932 16 1, Price £3.50
This short book is intended to be a resource primarily for non-trans people who wish to get a
simple grasp on current transgender issues. Perfect for older high school students, university
undergraduates from many fields who need a simple explanation to the back ground of their project
work, and for family and friends of trans people who simply want to understand.
It addresses the historical, social, legal and medical issues surrounding the new community. The
book throws light onto what are complex issues, clarifying them in a way that all those who think
they know what gender roles mean, will be called to question the certainties they are no longer
about.
Transgender has become a cultural obsession. From the high camp of Ru Paul to the working
class transsexual icon, Hayley of the UK's longest running soap "Coronation Street", it pervades
our lives. Yet for many it remaines a freakish interest on the sidelines. For transsexual and
transgender people, though, it is a reality bound up in complexities, legal contradictions, family
discord, and a desperate need to explain what it means to be a man or a woman, or neither, or
both.
(This book is just out - if you cannot get copies in the US yet, but would like some contact me
direct and I can arrange to purchase here and ship)
Stephen
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Stephen Whittle Tel: 0161 247 6444 (work)
Senior Lecturer in Law Tel: 0161 432 1915 (home)
The School of Law Fax: 0161 247 6309 (work)
Manchester Metro University Fax: 0161 432 8454 (home)
Hathersage Rd
Manchester M13 0JA
United Kingdom
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