“You’ve Changed”: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity

(edited collection)

Editor: Laurie Shrage

Social activists in various queer and trans communities in the U.S. and elsewhere are pressing for greater inclusion for gender-variant people. In the wake of greater public awareness of the transgender community and movement, more scholarship is taking place, especially in the areas of medicine, law, history, sociology, and gender and queer studies. The experiences and political aims of transsexuals, intersex individuals, and other transgender or gender-variant people raise a number of issues that warrant philosophical exploration. This volume aims to bring together work by feminist philosophers that examines the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions about selfhood and sex identities that often surface in social policy debates about trans issues.

The contributors to this collection are feminist theorists and philosophers who write about gender identity, sexuality, theories of subjectivity, self knowledge, toleration and political recognition, and other related topics.