Original title: "A reinvenção do corpo: Sexualidade e gênero na experiência transexual" (The Reinvention of the Body: Sexuality and Gender in the Transsexual Experience) by Berenice Bento."This book is anchored in the life stories of people who have changed their bodies, surgically or not, to become real, so as not to be 'freaks', a common expression among transsexuals. The reinvention of the body: sexuality and gender in the transsexual experience will suggest that explanations for the emergence of the transsexual experience should be sought in the historical and social articulations that pr
