Pleasure and EfficacyIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie Stopes, Lavery explores the scepticism found in such works about whether it is truly possible to change one's sex. This ambivalence, she argues, has contributed to both antitrans