The Sexual Century
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Over the course of the past century, sexual liberation has transformed the way in which most of us regard our bodies and live our sexual lives. Now a preeminent psychoanalytic theoretician on sex and gender discusses what has gone into this unquiet revolutionthe roles played by sexologists and psychoanalysts, antibiotics and birth control, the liberation movements, and Freud’s insight that sex has as much to do with the mind as with the genitals. In this collection of new and previously published papers, Ethel Person writes of the centrality of sexuality to our identity. She describes the role of fantasy in desire, its different expression in the sexes, and the way in which desire is inevitably intertwined with power. Her classic papers on transvestism, transsexualism, and cross-dressing homosexuals, written with Lionel Ovesey, help us to understand how gender and sex develop in all of us. The public acceptance of the transsexual, says Person, is emblematic of the profound scientific and intellectual shifts that have taken place in the past hundred years. The way that sex and gender develop and are experienced and expressed is the resultnot only of nature and nurture but also of the cultural zeitgeist, its unspoken values and biases. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Sex and Gender: General Considerations 1. The Sexual Century (1998) 2. Sexuality as the Mainstay of Identity: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (1980) 3. Psychoanalytic Theories of Gender Identity (1983) 4. The Influence of Values in Psychoanalysis: The Case of Female Psychology (1983) Part II. Cross-Gender Disorders 5. Gender Identity and Sexual Psychopathology in Men: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homosexuality, Transsexualism, and Transvestism (1973) 6. The Transsexual Syndrome in Males: Primary Transsexualism (1974) 7. The Transsexual Syndrome in Males: Secondary Transsexualism (1974) 8. Transvestism: A Disorder of the Sense of Self (1976) 9. Transvestism: New Perspectives (1978) 10. Homosexual Cross-Dressers (1984) 11. Extreme Boyhood Femininity: Isolated Finding or Pervasive Disorder? (1985) Part III. Sex and Fantasy 12. From Sexual Desire to Excitement: The Role of Sexual Fantasy (1998) 13. Gender Differences in Sexual Behaviors and Fantasies in a College Population (1989) 14. Associations Between Sexual Experiences and Fantasies in a Nonpatient Population: A Preliminary Study (1992) Part IV. Sex and Gender: Female Sexuality and Femininity and Male Sexuality and Masculinity 15. The Erotic Transference in Women and in Men: Differences and Consequences (1985) 16. Female Sexual Identity: The Impact of the Adolescent Experience (1985) 17. Some Mysteries of Gender: Rethinking Masculine Identifications in Heterosexual Women (1998) 18. Male Sexuality and Power (1986) 19. The Omni-Available Woman and Lesbian Sex: Two Fantasy Themes and Their Relationship to the Male Developmental Experience (1986) Part V. The Impact of Culture 20. Harry Benjamin and the Birth of a Shared Cultural Fantasy (1972/1997) References Index
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