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Starred Review on November 1, 2024 | Reference
In this volume, Pickett (political science, Univ. of Wyoming; Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality) broadly defines being transgender as seeing oneself differently from one's assigned sex or prescribed social gender. This encyclopedia includes 233 succinctly written, unsigned, alphabetically arranged entries that encompass terms (nonbinary, gender-fluid); related topics (adoption, pronouns, bathrooms, the Equality Act); mythology (Hermaphroditus and others); people (Charles de Beaumont, chevalier d'Éon, Thomas Aquinas); and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More