Journalist, psychotherapist and novelist Amy Bloom explores sex and gender through portraits of people who are widely considered not normal - transsexuals, crossdressers, hermaphrodites - a group of people larger and more 'normal' than most of us would imagine. There are men like Hale, a 'regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy' with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender.
Mothers like Jessie, who realised that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help him make the transgender transition. And couples like Peggy and her husband, 'Melanie', who holiday on cruise ships along with fellow heterosexual crossdressers. Bloom cuts through the psychology by showing us these people as they really are and in their own words.
This intimate portrait reinvents the idea of sex, gender, and identity, and the very concept of being 'normal'.
| ISBN: | 9780747564560 |
| Publication date: | 2nd June 2003 |
| Author: | Amy Bloom |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 140 pages |
| Genres: |
Psychology |
Journalist, psychotherapist and novelist Amy Bloom explores sex and gender through portraits of people who are widely considered not normal - transsexuals, crossdressers, hermaphrodites - a group of people larger and more 'normal' than most of us would imagine. There are men like Hale, a 'regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy' with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender.
Normal features in the following genres: Psychology
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Normal was written by Amy Bloom and published by Bloomsbury
Normal has 140 pages
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