"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 produce the sex-bodies and that have in heterosexuality the matrix that confers intelligibility to the Genres."
"Berenice Bento holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Goiás (1994). She holds a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Brasília (1998) and a PhD from the same university (2003). Her research focuses on topics such as gender, sexuality and human rights. It was considered "an unavoidable reference for recent gender studies in the field of social sciences". She taught at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2009-2017), where she coordinated the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexual Diversity, Genders and Human Rights (2010-2013).
