REVIEWS

OVER THE SEX BORDER, by Georgina Turtle Victor Gallancz, 318 pages, London, 1963, 30 Shillings

This book gives expression to one person's attitudes and opinions about change of sex. The author is well qualified to express her views on the subject because she was born a male and at age 37 years was officially changed to a female by the correction of male to female on her birth certificate. During her male episode, she served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the British Navy and had a successful dental practice after the war.

The genetic difference between male and female are stressed and explained in detail. In addition, the em- otional components are evaluated. From the medical point of view there are few specialists who have any ex- perience in the field of transvestism and there is a dea- rth of published scientific material on the subject. The important aspect of treatment as it concerns both the doctor and the patient plays an important part in the book. For the TV or the TS, Over The Sex Border will pro- vide much interesting and provocative reading.

TRANSVESTISM,

by David U. Cauldwell, $2.00 Sexology Corp., New York, 3rd. edition, 1963, 128 pgs.

Although the original printing of this "first major book wholly devoted to the subject of transvestism" was in 1956, many of the contributions in this third edition are still pertinent to our present understanding of the subject.

In the Preface, one thing is made clear: "whether we consider transvestism an inherited constitutional pheno- menon or a manifestation of personality disorder and so- cial conditioning, we cannot escape the need for studying this sexual deviation in all it's many ramifications and varied forms of expression.

The latter half of the book is replete with illust- Much of ratins and illustrative case history material. what is seen and read is familiar to the readers of this magazine; withal it provides one with a sense of be- longing to study the scientific account of the history and development of understanding of the condition of cross-dressing, known as transvestism.

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Leo Wollman, M.D.