Am I Still a Woman?: Hysterectomy and Gender Identity Pdf Reviews

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Release: 2003-11-01
Publisher: Temple University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1592132111
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Am I Still a Woman? pdf
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Recent scientific findings regarding the potential dangers associated with hormone replacement therapies bring renewed attention to the relationship between women's bodies and gender identity. In "Am I Still A Woman?" Jean Elson offers the testimony of women who have thought deeply about this issue as a result of gynecological surgery. For the women in this book, gynecological surgery for benign conditions proved to be a crisis that prompted questions about the meanings of sexual and reproductive organs in relation to being female and feminine. Is a woman who no longer menstruates still a woman? What about a woman who can no longer bear children? Elson looks closely at the differences in responses to understand the impact of surgery and lost fertility on sexuality and partnerships as well as the steps some women take to deal with a sense of a stigmatized identity. Whether they reconceptualized their old notions of what it means to be a woman or put a new focus on making themselves attr Download Am I Still a Woman? for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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