View Before Class
(Alain Berliner, 1997).
Read for Background
- Suzanne Kessler, “The Medical Construction of Gender.” Signs 16, no. 1, 1990.
- Anne Fausto-Sterling, “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough.” The Sciences 33, no. 2. 1993.
- ———, “The Five Sexes Revisited.” The Sciences (July/Aug 2000).
Read
- Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook, “Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: ’Gender Normals’, Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality.” Gender & Society 23, no 4. 2009.
- Deborah Sontag, “Once a Pariah, Now a Judge: The Early Transgender Journey of Phyllis Frye.” The New York Times. August 29, 2015.
- Riki Anne Wilchins, “17 Things You Don’t Say to a Transsexual” and “What Does It Cost to Tell the Truth?” from Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Firebrand Books, 1997, pp. 27–40. ISBN: 9781563410918.
