Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-dressing and Sex-changingRichard Ekins, Dave King First published in 1995, the book describes personal experiences of those who cross-dress and sex change, how they organise themselves socially - in both `outsider' and `respectable' communities. The contributors consider the dominant medical framework through which gender blending is so often seen and look at the treatment afforded gender blending in literature, the press and the recently emerged telephone sex lines. The book concludes with a discussion of the lively debates that have taken place concerning the politics of transgenderism in recent years, and examines its prominence in recent contributions to contemporary cultural theory and queer theory. |
Contents
Experiencing gender blending | 5 |
GENDER FUCKING OR FUCKING GENDER? | 14 |
THE PERSONAL ACCOUNT | 32 |
THE CAREER PATH OF THE MALE FEMALER | 39 |
The social organisation of gender blending | 49 |
A HETEROSEXUAL TRANSVESTITE CLUB | 63 |
The medicalisation of gender blending | 75 |
THE SOCIOMEDICAL CONSTRUCTION | 99 |
Gender blending and the media | 119 |
CROSSDRESSING SEXCHANGING AND | 128 |
MALE FEMALING TELEPHONE SEX AND | 146 |
Gender blending and gender politics | 167 |
THE POLITICS OF TRANSGENDERISM | 215 |
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Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex Changing Richard Ekins,David King Limited preview - 2002 |
Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex Changing Richard Ekins,David King Limited preview - 2002 |
Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-dressing and Sex-changing Richard Ekins No preview available - 1996 |
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