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Summary: The uninvited dilemma is a breath of fresh air.
Review: I found the book to be thoroughly thought out and genuine. It truly answered many of my question where other books on the subject failed to answer.
I feel this book is a must for anyone who questions there gender and is looking for direct and to the point answers.The writer took great pains to retain the authenticity of the interviews she held.
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Summary: Good basics, but slightly out of date
Review: I was at first disappointed to discover that the book I had just purchased was 12 years old. So some of the terminology no longer is in use and some theories have been either refuted or more warmly embraced by the TG community in the years since this book was published. New theories have emerged that were not even discussed in this book, understandably.
However, her methodology and findings appear to be quite sound and have stood the test of time. Some ideas she proposes, which may have been unique or relatively fresh at the time, have now come to be common knowledge or understanding.
However, so much of what is in this book exists in greater detail in other, more updated books. I would recommend this for those wanting a comparative look back in time, but I believe more current publications would be much more beneficial to most readers.
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Summary: The Uninvited Dilemma - A Review
Review: Right up front the author says, "This book is about transsexuals." She then goes on to state, "The subject has received widespread publicity; but despite the headlines, little is known about the condition by the general public..." Starting off with a set of definitions and descriptions she painstakingly stakes out her grounds for discussion and then carefully and methodically attempts to correct the misconceptions and to debunk the myths surrounding transsexualism. The early chapters of the book deal with the problems and experiences of transsexuals from the early years to adulthood. The final chapters deal primarily with the conclusions reached as a result of her research and the many interviews she conducted. Although the period covered by her work is now almost twenty years old, some of her comments are timeless, being equally relevant to today's world as it was in the 1990's. For example, in Chapter 4 she states in part, "Certainly a society which can find its way to the moon and back has the ability to find fair, discrete, and equitable ways of helping a very small percentage of individuals cope with personal dilemmas without destroying their careers and human dignity. We have become such a wasteful, throwaway society, it comes as a shock to learn the price we pay when we squander our natural resources. Although we are sometimes our own worst enemy, human beings - men and women - are our most precious natural resource. Just as we exact a toll on the quality of our life when we carelessly trash our environment, society pays dearly when we heedlessly toss about human lives as if they were empty, used up cans and bottle." Despite the fact that the book claims to be about transsexuals, a careful reading of the author's definitions, so important to an understanding of this work, it is equally about transgender persons, a term in use today which was not used when the book was written.
This book is a fascinating read which challenges us all to reevaluate our thoughts on gender. I recommended it highly to all who seek answers to problems associated with trans phenomena; transsexuals, transgenders, their families, their friends, service professionals, and the public in general.
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Summary: The Uninvited Delemma
Review: The most informative, comprehensive and wonderful book on gender and transexuals. I have searched for answers my entire life... They are all here!!! Answers for the individual, the family and others, particularly focusing on the most basic of all questions, yet the most difficult to address... "WHY"? "A could not put it down book" !! If there is any way to contact the author and give her a heart felt hug and deepest, sincerest Thank you for all she has done I am surely going to try! A small thank you will never be enough to express my deepest feelings!!! Thank you Kim....
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Summary: The Uninvited Delemma
Review: The most informative, comprehensive and wonderful book on gender and transexuals. I have searched for answers my entire life... They are all here!!! Answers for the individual, the family and others, particularly focusing on the most basic of all questions, yet the most difficult to address... "WHY"? "A could not put it down book" !! If there is any way to contact the author and give her a heart felt hug and deepest, sincerest Thank you for all she has done I am surely going to try! A small thank you will never be enough to express my deepest feelings!!! Thank you Kim....
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Summary: The other fifteen percent!
Review: The Uninvited Dilemma is truly a remakable achievement, seeking as it does, to elucidate the lay person to the multitude of complexities surrounding transexualism. Kim Elizabeth Stuart manages to incorporate both the medical aspects (consequnces of SRS and hormone theraphy etc) and the personal accounts of her interviewees, by using examples of the latter to illuminate the former. The only real criticism I can honestly level a this book - and it is one levelled at many others in this particualr field - is the paucity of personal accounts from those individals who, whilst felt different growing up, could not articulate that sense of 'otherness' until their mid to late twenties, or even later. Approximately 85% of those interviewed knew that their body's gender was incongruous with thier mental gender from being a small child. I feel that the book would have benefited from more than the odd quote from the other 15% who did not know so early on in life. Indeed, whilst the use of real life anecdotes from M-F and F-M transexuals (or 'former' transxuals) worked beautifully, the lack of them however, seemed a little unfortunate. Thus, if these two points had been addressed, I would happily rate this book ...!
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Summary: The other fifteen percent!
Review: The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
by Kim E. Stuart
One great book to start looking for answers within ones self. The book is filled with insights that may have you thinking your reading about yourself. While i may not have all the answers it will surely get you asking all the questions. Gender is it what we think of as normal, or we have accepted as customary? There is more than the bi-polar gender that society allows themselves to see!
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Summary: The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
Review: The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender
by Kim E. Stuart
One great book to start looking for answers within ones self. The book is filled with insights that may have you thinking your reading about yourself. While i may not have all the answers it will surely get you asking all the questions. Gender is it what we think of as normal, or we have accepted as customary? There is more than the bi-polar gender that society allows themselves to see!
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Summary: A fitting title for a sensitive topic
Review: This book offers a technical, in-depth look at the difficult phenonenon of transexualism. The author set out to discover facts and statistics about trassexualism for all socio-economic classes regarless of race, creed or colour. The facts presented allow the reader to draw their own conclusions, rather than force feed the reader an opinion. Well written, honest, and difficult to put down. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A fitting title for a sensitive topic
Review: This is a wonderfully detailed, complete explanation of Gender and Transexuals. It addresses so, so many questions for us, for loved ones and others, as well as providing answers, answers to even the most difficult question of all, "WHY"??? A definate "could not put it down" I have searched for my entire life for such explanations and have now found them. If there is any way possible to contact the author Kim Elizabeth Stuart and give her a warm "hug" and a heart felt, sincere "thank you" I surely will try! A little "thank you" surely would never begin to express how her time, insight and persistance can help so many others! Thank you Kim!
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