Sissies and tomboys : gender nonconformity and homosexual childhood /
Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c1999. |
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Description: | ix, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3853501 |
Summary: | In 1973, homosexuality was officially depathologized with a revision in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry . In 1980, a new diagnosis appeared: Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood (GID). The shift separated gender from sexuality, while it simultaneously reinforced traditional concepts of "male" and "female" and made it possible for cross-gendered behavior and/or identification to be deemed psychiatric illness. |
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Physical Description: | ix, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index. |
ISBN: | 0814774830 0814774849 |