| Description |
xix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ken Plummer -- Blending Genders - An Introduction / Richard Ekins and Dave King -- 1. In Female Attire: Male Experiences of Cross-Dressing - Some Historical Fragments / Peter Farrer -- 2. Becoming a Man: The Personal Account of a Female-to-Male Transsexual / Mark Rees -- 3. The Career Path of the Male Femaler / Richard Ekins -- 4. The 'Drag Queen Scene': Transsexuals in Kings Cross / Roberta Perkins -- 5. A Heterosexual Transvestite Club / Neil Buhrich -- 6. London Grandeur: The Porchester Ball / Phaedra Kelly -- 7. Gender Blending: Medical Perspectives and Technology / Dave King -- 8. The Socio-Medical Construction of Transsexualism: An Interpretation and Critique / Dwight B. Billings and Thomas Urban -- 9. 120 Years of Male Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing in English and American Literature / Peter Farrer -- 10. Cross-Dressing, Sex-Changing and the Press / Dave King -- 11. Male Femaling, Telephone Sex and the Case of Intimacy Scripts / Richard Ekins |
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12. Divided Sisterhood: A Critical Review of Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire / Carol Riddell -- 13. Autobiographical Fragments from a Transsexual Activist / Terri Webb -- 14. Gender Fucking or Fucking Gender? Current Cultural Contributions to Theories of Gender Blending / Stephen Whittle -- 15. The Politics of Transgenderism / Janice Raymond -- Appendix I: A chronological listing of English and American short stories and novels featuring cross-dressing and sex-changing -- Appendix II: A guide to resources |
| Summary |
Considers the treatment of gender blenders by the medical framework, in literature, the press and telephone sex lines and examines its prominence in recent contemporary cultural and queer theory |
| Analysis |
Transvestism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cross-dressing.
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Gender nonconformity.
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Gender transition.
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Sex role.
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Transgender people.
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Transsexualism.
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Transsexuals.
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Cross-dressers.
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Trans inclusivity.
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| Author |
Ekins, Richard, 1945-
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King, Dave, 1947-
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| LC no. |
95034005 |
| ISBN |
0415115515 (hbk) |
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0415115523 (paperback) |
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