In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage.

Lynn Atwater, Anne Bolin

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1989 · 173 citations · 0 references

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The monograph examines sociocultural, psychological, and physical aspects of gender transition, offering a comprehensive sociological perspective. The study presents a carefully crafted, clearly written monograph valuable to scholars of sexuality and gender. No additional information.

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An absorbing account of the sociocultural aspects of gender transition. . . [a] carefully crafted, clearly written monograph which scholars of both sexuality and gender can profitably read. Contemporary Sociology A fascinating study, perceptive and well written, an excellent piece of work. Martin S. Weinberg, Indiana University Anne Bolin illuminates the array of social, psychological and physical changes experienced by a group of people in the process of changing gender.