The New Goddess: Transgender Women in the Twenty-First Century

The New Goddess: Transgender Women in the Twenty-First Century is a special and valuable book because it will be viewed differently in different circles. This quality is its strength. To be clear, it will not necessarily be "all things to all people'" but, rather, will speak to those different audiences associated with transgendered women. The academic, for instance, will have much primary source material in the contributions from transgendered women, whose personal histories are, at once, emotionally honest, at times frightening, and always compelling reading. These personal accounts help throw light on a number of intellectual questions, such as the role of nature and nurture among those interested in explaining transgender, and whether gender is more a process than a property. By contrast, for transgenders, especially those genies who have not escaped from the bottle, and for those professionals who work with them, this book will provide a number of fine-grained, realistic and honest snap shots of the social world. In approaching transition to living as a woman, for example, transgenders will have a clear picture of the difficulties to be faced and their diversity.