I'm a woman trapped in a man's body. This statement would be laughable a few generations ago. Today this belief is dominant, even intuitive for many.

Carl Trueman believes statements like the one above mark the culmination of a revolution in thought and self-understanding. Trueman purports that this revolution is caught more than taught, and his new book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self seeks to unveil the shroud that is draped over our concepts of sexuality.