The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male

Boston: Beacon Press, 1979.
First Edition.

21cm x 14cm. xxvii, 220 pages. Grey cloth, red lettering and decoration, lettered jacket.

Foundational text of trans-exclusionary radical feminism. Raymond argued that transsexualism arose from patriarchal sex-role stereotypes, that the medical and psychiatric establishment reinforced them through hormonal and surgical treatment, and that trans women were invading the women’s movement, and women’s spaces and bodies.

Spine head and tail very lightly pushed. Some shelf wear to jacket, very minor chips and tears to edges. Very Good Condition.

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