01:510:265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Christine Jorgensen, Harry Benjamin, Transvestism

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: European History Courses
• Course: 01:510:265
• Professor: Professor Mitchell

Document Summary

This week"s readings include transsexualism and transvestism as psycho-somatic and. Somato- psychic syndromes by harry benjamin, the house on the borderland": lesbian. Desire, marriage, and the household, 1950-1979 by lauren jae gutterman and christine. Transvestism as psycho-somatic and somato- psychic syndromes focuses on defining terms such as transvestism, transsexualism, transsexualist etc. The article also explores the relation of transsexualism to homosexuality and types of transvestites; such as, 1. The house on the borderland": lesbian desire, marriage, and the household, 1950-1979 talks about wives that secretly carried on their lesbian affairs and still maintained their marriages during 1950s to 1970s. The last reading was from chapter eight of christine. Jorgensen: a personal autobiography , written by christine jorgensen, an american trans women who was the first person to become widely known in the united states for having sex reassignment surgery. This essay will focus on the second reading, the house on the.