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Blending genders : social aspects of cross-dressing and sex-changing / edited by Richard Ekins and Dave King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King Ekins Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender nonconformity.
- Trans people.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of contributors; Foreword by Ken Plummer; Acknowledgements; BLENDING GENDERS; AN INTRODUCTION Richard Ekins and Dave King; INTRODUCTION; IN FEMALE ATTIRE: MALE EXPERIENCES OF CROSS-DRESSING; SOME HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS Peter Farrer; BECOMING A MAN: THE PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF A FEMALE-TO-MALE TRANSSEXUAL Mark Rees; THE CAREER PATH OF THE MALE FEMALER Richard Ekins; INTRODUCTION; THE 'DRAG QUEEN SCENE': TRANSSEXUALS IN KINGS CROSS Roberta Perkins; A HETEROSEXUAL TRANSVESTITE CLUB Neil Buhrich; LONDON GRANDEUR: THE PORCHESTER BALL Phaedra Kelly
- INTRODUCTIONGENDER BLENDING: MEDICAL PERSPECTIVES AND TECHNOLOGY Dave King; THE SOCIO-MEDICAL CONSTRUCTION OF TRANSSEXUALISM: AN INTERPRETATION AND CRITIQUE Dwight B.Billings and Thomas Urban; INTRODUCTION; 120 YEARS OF MALE CROSS-DRESSING AND SEX-CHANGING IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Peter Farrer; CROSS-DRESSING, SEX-CHANGING AND THE PRESS Dave King; MALE FEMALING, TELEPHONE SEX AND THE CASE OF INTIMACY SCRIPTS Richard Ekins; INTRODUCTION; DIVIDED SISTERHOOD: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF JANICE RAYMOND'S THE TRANSSEXUAL EMPIRE Carol Riddell
- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS FROM A TRANSSEXUAL ACTIVIST Terri WebbGENDER FUCKING OR FUCKING GENDER? CURRENT CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEORIES OF GENDER BLENDING Stephen Whittle; THE POLITICS OF TRANSGENDERISM Janice Raymond; A chronological listing of English and American short stories and novels featuring cross-dressing and sex-changing; A guide to resources; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-82057-7
- 1-134-82058-5
- 9780203295420
- 1-280-32550-X
- 0-203-29542-0
- 9780203201442
- OCLC:
- 252787313
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