Summary : ' Just Add Hormones ' An Insider 's Guide ' The Transsexual Experience '
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Kailey, M. (2005). Just Add Hormones: An insider’s guide to the transsexual experience. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Kailey (2005) started off Just Add Hormones by introducing the terms sex and gender as individual and different words in definition. He also spoke about how transgendered people take much longer to transition than what people frequently assume. Most people assume that one surgery can make a male a female, or a female a male. The book overall discusses the stereotypes transgender people have, and how those stereotype dehumanize regular people. The book shows accurate differences between being female and being male. It allows readers to fully understand Kailey’s (2005) experiences in every aspect of life in both a male and female lense. The book is going to be helpful because it compares and contrasts life as a male to life as a female. This perspective is going to support all three of the themes: gender socialization in the workplace, gender roles in relationships and gender socialization in family, because it contains Kailey’s perspective in
Knudson-Martin, C. (2013). Why Power Matters: Creating a Foundation of Mutual Support in
Couple Relationships. Family Process, 52(1), 5-18. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.aclin.org:2048/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=e0da07b 3-a4d8-4603-bb1c-e611558239b4%40sessionmgr4001&vid=116&hid=4213
Knudson-Martin (2013) began the article by showing how relationships struggle with the notion that each partner has to