title: The Transgender Phenomenon
author:  Richard Ekins 
description: <em>"This book is indispensable for anyone working in (trans)gender and sexuality studies and is a vital history of the interrelationships among these various transgendering narratives in Europe and America from the early 1970s to the present. The authors deftly move across disciplines, from early sociologist George Herbert Mead to Michel Foucault and Kate Bornstein, making this book a welcome relief from some of the narrow, discipline-bound work in transgender and sexuality studies. Summing up: Essential Upper-division division undergraduates and above."</em> Author: J.M Irvine Published On: 2007-08-20
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  Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 35. No.3, June 2006, pp. 263-278.
  Clinical and Theoretical Parallels Between Desire for Limb
  Amputation and Gender Identity Disorder1
  Anne A. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D.2
  Received May 11, 2005; revision received October 20, 2005; accepted November 5, 2005.
  Published online: 24 June 2006
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  Desire for amputation of a healthy limb has usually been regarded as a paraphilia (apotemnophilia), but some
  researchers propose that it may be a disorder of identity, similar to Gender Identity Disorder or
  transsexualism. Similarities between the desire for limb amputation and nonhomosexual male-to-female
  (MtF) transsexualism include profound dissatisfaction with embodiment, related paraphilias from which the
  conditions plausibly derive (apotemnophilia and autogynephilia), sexual arousal from simulation of the
  sought-after status (pretending to be an amputee and transvestism), attraction to persons with the same body
  type o