A Critical Analysis of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

by Charlene Tinker, April 2015

1200 words

4 pages

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Introduction

Statement of Purpose

The goal of this Critical Thinking Book Report (CBRT) is to examine the interconnection between the concept of innate and learned gender qualities. Therefore, this book is investigated in order to define the core options about the protagonist’s feelings about the situation of the transgendered condition and its comprehension in the further life. Thus, it shows how people react and behave in case of growing up with incorrect gender perception.

Critical Thinking Framework

Before conducting the critical thinking book report, it is worth addressing to certain steps that are considered to be the fundamental basis for the gender psychology. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect understanding of the four steps of the “RICA” method of the critical thinking and analysis. The abovementioned method deals with reflection, integration, connection, and application of the critical thinking.

To be more precise, reflection is used as a part of critical thinking book report to investigate which problem is observed in particular case and how it is observed in the stated environments. Another part, which is integration, is used in order to provide demonstration how the aforementioned found problematic issue can be integrated in the society and, particularly, in some certain gender concept in psychology. Furthermore, the following step, which is called connection, is associated with virtual understanding the interconnections of the stated problems with the psychological concepts, feelings of the person under investigation, and the ways implemented for the solution of the issues. Last but not least step, known as application, deals with actual description of the abovementioned ideas in the stated situation and the ways how they can be implemented in some other cases. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to all the mentioned steps in order to find the whole comprehension of the psychological issue and its manifestation on the exact situation samples.

Selected Book for Psychology of Women

Since the problems, related to understanding of the psychology of women, are rather important in today’s society, it is worth paying attention to the virtual manifestations of its problems and its components within society in order to find out the actual importance and significance of the field. Therefore, in order to examine certain problems of the abovementioned sphere, in particular, the chapter dealing with Half the Human Experiences, we decided to investigate the problems of transgender comprehension on the basis of conducting the critical thinking book report on As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto, as far as this book represents factual understanding of the protagonist and his family of the transgender problematic issue. This book is rather meaningful and rational in such a choice, as far as it described understanding of growing up, being subjected to gender changes in early childhood.

Organization of the Report

In order to investigate the abovementioned book, it is worth paying attention to the four constituents, which would be addressed in the further provision of the critical thinking book report, which are: reflection (Part II), integration (Part III), connection (Part IV), application (Part V), …

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