Scientific findings regarding the potential dangers associated with hormone replacement therapies bring renewed attention to the relationship between women's bodies and gender identity. This book offers the testimony of women who have thought deeply about this issue as a result of gynecological surgery.

Recent scientific findings regarding the potential dangers associated with hormone replacement therapies bring renewed attention to the relationship between women's bodies and gender identity. In Am I Still a Woman? Jean Elson offers the testimony of women who have thought deeply about this issue as a result of gynaecological surgery. proved to be a crisis that prompted questions about the meanings of sexual and reproductive organs in relation to being female and feminine. Is a woman who no longer menstruates still a woman? What about a woman who can no longer bear children? of surgery and...