| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. By Joanne Meyerowitz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 363 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00925-8.)

Joanne Meyerowitz's sweeping, engaging, and illuminating new book on the history of transsexuality in the United States, How Sex Changed, adds to what is in many respects a now familiar story: a new sexual minority emerges during the twentieth century, in the tangle of conflicted meanings in the fields of science, law, popular culture, journalism, and politics. Over the course of the century, the definitions of biological sex, psychological gender, and sexual behavior are distinguished, but never definitively, as debates rage on. In the process, transsexuals emerge alongside homosexuals (lesbian and gay), bisexuals, transvestites, and the intersexed, and they come to constitute one portion of the transgender social movement of the 1990s. . . .

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