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By Deborah Rudacille. 355 pp. New York, Pantheon, 2005. $26. ISBN 0-375-42162-9.

How do nature and nurture interact to produce a persistent awareness of one's identity as male or as female — that is, one's "gender identity," as this term is now used in the official diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association? How does understanding the psychology of transgendered people — those who fall between the polarities of being male and being female — illuminate gender psychology? Organized as verbatim interviews with commentary, The Riddle of Gender grapples with these questions in a stimulating way.

The book starts with a personal narrative by the author and goes on to include the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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