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Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented by the Association for Queer AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Section on Sexualities of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2013 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies presented by the Center for Gay and Lesbian StudiesSex in Transition explores the lives of those who undermine the man/woman binary, exposing the gendered contradictions of apartheid and the transition to democracy in South Africa. In this context, gender liminality—a way to describe spaces between common conceptions of "man" and "woman"—is expressed by South Africans who identify as transgender, transsexual, transvestite, intersex, lesbian, gay, and/or eschew these categories altogether. This book is the first academic exploration of challenges to the man/woman binary on the African continent and brings together gender, queer, and postcolonial studies to question the stability of sex. It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender. Sex in Transition challenges the dominance of theoretical frameworks based in the global North, drawing on fifteen years of research in South Africa to define the parameters of a new transnational transgender and sexuality studies.

Gender identity --- Intersexuality --- Transsexuals --- Transsexualism --- Bisexuality (Biology) --- Hermaphroditism --- Intersex conditions --- Sex (Biology) --- Transexuals --- Transsexual people --- Transgender people --- Transexualism --- Transexuality --- Transsexuality --- Gender nonconformity --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History. --- Patients --- Gender expression --- Gender dysphoria

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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender – men accused of being women and women accused of being men – or even hermaphrodites. Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World. It throws light upon the manner in which the Inquisition, medical practitioners and the wider society in Spain and Portugal responded to transgenderism and on the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted these social and sexual conventions.

Transgenderism --- Transgender people --- Gender identity --- Inquisition --- History. --- Gender identity -- Portugal -- History. --- Gender identity -- Spain -- History. --- Inquisition -- Portugal -- History. --- Inquisition -- Spain -- History. --- Transgender people -- Portugual -- History. --- Transgender people -- Spain -- History. --- Transgenderism -- Portugal -- History. --- Transgenderism -- Spain -- History. --- Identification (Psychology) --- Psychosexual Development --- Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological --- History, Early Modern 1451-1600 --- Religion --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Psychoanalytic Theory --- History --- Defense Mechanisms --- Personality Development --- Humanities --- Sexual and Gender Disorders --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Personality --- Mental Disorders --- Psychological Theory --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Gender Identity --- History, 17th Century --- History, 18th Century --- History, 16th Century --- Religion and Sex --- Transsexualism --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Gender nonconformity -- Portugal -- History. --- Gender nonconformity -- Spain -- History. --- Gender nonconformity --- Gender variance (Gender nonconformity) --- Genderqueer --- Non-binary gender --- TGNC (Transgender and gender nonconformity) --- TG people --- TGs (Transgender people) --- Trans-identified people --- Trans people --- Transgender-identified people --- Transgendered people --- Transgenders --- Transpeople --- Holy Office --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Gender expression --- Sexual minorities --- Autos-da-fé --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Persons --- Gender dysphoria