The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals"The Phallus Palace "is a bold approach to the subject of female to male transexuals (FTMs). Personal testaments from FTMs and contributions from a host of others place the subject of transsexualism into a historical, medical, psychological and cultural context. Captivating photographs guide the reader from the FTMs female personae, through surgical operations, to portraits of the men whose self and public identities are finally revealed as one. Dean Kotula has worked as a documentary photographer for twenty years. Dean changed his sex from female to male under the scrutinizing eyes of 2,000 predominantly male shipyard workers while working as a machinist. The ensuing ordeal prompted him to create this book A native Minnesotan, Dean now resides in Massachusetts where he co-owns an antique business. |
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... term brain sex is shorthand to reflect on how an individual thinks and organizes the world— whether in stereotypical male or female ways . It is certainly true that the brain is the most sexual organ of the body , and the term brain sex ...
... term gender is used not only in referring to one's masculinity or femininity but also in referring to morphology , whether some- one is male or female . The use of the term sex as a noun also seems to be outmoded outside of scientific ...
... term in popular language . Another issue is how Gender Identity Disorder , capital letters , is seen as a medical condition . GID is a constellation of thoughts and behaviors that is still used by the scientific and medical communities ...