The primary character is a hermaphrodite man with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency. People like to argue about the definition of words but I think "intersexed" is the broader category used to describe a variety of conditions in which people have both male and feminine characteristics.
Great book. Marie **************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology, Dickinson College Kaufman 168, Phone 717 245-1562 Office hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 2:00-3:30 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html **************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:32 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Psychology of Gender Question On 27 Sep 2011 at 16:57, Tollefsrud, Linda wrote: >One fiction book that has served me well is _Egalia´s Daughters_ by >Gerd Brantenberg. An excellent non-fiction supplement would be _As >Nature Made Him_ by John Colapinto. I'd suggest _Middlesex_ (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides. It's a sprawling multi-generational epic novel, both an account of the (Greek) immigrant experience and a personal story of a transgendered individual. I can't see how it could be used in the classroom, but it would be an excellent supplementary source for a student seeking a (fictional) enrichment of classroom information in the psychology of gender. Great novel. Wikipedia tells me it won a Pulitzer Prize. No indication there's a major motion picture on the way, although Eugenides' earlier novel, _The Virgin Suicides_ was turned into a successful one. Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797f&n=T&l=tips&o=13015 or send a blank email to leave-13015-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13022 or send a blank email to leave-13022-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
