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Joseph Henry Press cites
Library Journal
The review below was written by Ina Rimpau, a staff member at the Newark Public Library in New Jersey. Joseph Henry Press is citing this excerpt on their web promotions for The Man Who Would Be Queen:
Full text (excerpts in blue, emphasis mine): Library Journal Bailey (psychology, Northwestern Univ.) presents himself as a psychologist firmly in the center of discussions surrounding transsexualism in males. He begins by contrasting a therapist who advocates striking a four-year-old boy for "engaging in feminine behavior" [1] (putting clothes on his stuffed animals) with the "anti - Gender Identity Disorder folks" (Bailey's term) [2] who say that society is sick for being intolerant of unmasculine boys. Using chatty, lay readers' terms and anecdotes from his own personal life and research, Bailey dispassionately presents the two extremes but fails to ask the deeper questions, e.g., if "masculine" and "feminine" traits and identities are so natural, why must masculinity in particular be intensely policed and enforced? He takes as a given that homosexuality has a biological root and describes transsexualism as a "developmental disorder." [3] Subsequent chapters present discussions and case studies of male-to-female transsexuals, making this book an adequate starting point for discussions on gender; for more radical views, readers are encouraged to read works by Pat Califia and Kate Bornstein. Recommended for comprehensive collections in sexuality, psychology, and social science. - Ina Rimpau, Newark P.L. References 1. Bailey page 25 2. Bailey page 28
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