Explores autobiographical accounts of transsexuality, challenging preconceptions which equate gender with sexuality. Prosser (English, American studies, U. of Leicester), himself a transsexual, applies close reading and theories of narrative to transsexual autobiography, to examine questions of identity in the transgendered body. He also "reads" photographic portraits of transsexuals for what they reveal about the subjects' developing self-images. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.