From cross-dressing to altering one's sex by undergoing hormone therapy and radical surgery, 'gender blending' has reached new levels of popularity. "Gender Blending" is an up-to-date account of this compelling trend that is rapidly altering the frontiers of human sexuality. The changes occurring in this area of lifestyle research are vast and rapid. This book looks at biological, sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological, religious, and other aspects of gender blending to find common ground among researchers in all areas. By representing a unique collaboration of experts and those involved in gender blending, this groundbreaking work could spell the beginning of a sexual renaissance.
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A compendium of papers presented at a recent symposium sponsored by California State University's Center for Sex Research, this open-minded exploration of cross-dressing, transsexualism and cross-gender behavior bills itself as "a scholarly version of Stonewall." Combining research reports, case histories, personal narratives and manifestos, this eye-opening survey searchingly delves into trans-gender phenomena across centuries and cultures, from Joan of Arc to Native American peoples to present-day Brazil, Indonesia, Costa Rica and the U.S. The academic authors provide unusually thorough coverage of coming out, counseling, health care, the legal system, political activism and how the world's religions regard cross-gender behavior. Certain essays, however, border on the nonsensical; for instance, one academic argues that Wagner's fondness for fabrics, frills and dressing gowns is indicative of the androgyny permeating his music, while another writer concludes, on the basis of extremely slender archeological evidence, that pharaoh Akhenaten's alleged trans-gender identity led him to formulate revolutionary monotheism. Sexologist Vern Bullough is visiting professor at the University of Southern California, where the late Bonnie Bullough was a professor of nursing; Elias teaches sex therapy at California State.
Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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"...offers essays from researchers, cri de coeur from the transgendered... [and] new information about the most perplexing aspects of human sexual identity." -- Men and Masculinities, July 1999
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Great for educating the masses.,
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This review is from: Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Heresy, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery (Hardcover)
I read this book, but as a cross dresser, I did not find answers for me in this book. I found it informative about the many diverse classifications of transgenderism. I would not suggest this for a transgendered person to find help, but I would suggest it for a person trying to learn about transgenderism and it's many facits. I found many of the statements in the book to come from the psychiatric community, not from transgenderd people themselves. It is a book looking in, not a book from within.
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This review is from: Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Heresy, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery (Hardcover)
I bed to differ with the first review. About half the chapters were written by transgendered and transsexual people.
Trans authors include Stephen Whittle,Aaron Devor, Ariadne Kane, Virginia Prince, Jayne Thomas, Holly Boswell, Miqqi Gilbert, Lisa Middleton, Michelle Kammerer, Winnie Brant, Nancy Naneroni, Yvonne Cook-Riley, Lynn Harris, Kymberleigh Richards, Rupert Raj, Jan Roberts, myself, and, I believe some others (I'm not sure how the identify). Several other chapters were written by significant others of transgendered people. The purpose of the conference that was the basis for the book was to bring together academics, transpeople, and supporters, and the book certainly reflects that. Here's the table of contents: 1. The Emergence of the Transgender Phenomenon Transforming Transvestism and Transsexualism: Polarity, Politics, and Gender - Anne Bolin Transgender: Some Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Contemporary Models and Methods of Coping and Treatment - Dallas Denny Transgender Coming Out: Implications for the Clinical Management of Gender Dysphoria - Walter O. Bockting The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression - Holly Boswell Beyond Appearances: Gendered Rationality and the Transgendered - Michael A. Gilbert 2. Transsexual Research and Comment Narrating Ourselves: Duped or Duplicitous - Karen Nakamura More Than Manly Women: How Female-to_Male Transsexuals Reject Lesbian Identities - Holly Devor Self-Testing: A Check on Sexual Identity and Other Levels of Sexuality - Milton Diamond Multiple Personality Order: A Response to Trauma and the Development of the Cross-Gender Experience - William A. Henkin Dissociation as a Defense against Ego-Dystonic Transsexualism - David Seil Feminist and Lesbian Opinions about Transsexuals - Monica Kendel, Holly Devor, and Nancy Strapko 3. Men Who Cross-Dress Development of the Cross-Gender Lifestyle: Comparisons of Cross-Gendered Men with Heterosexual Controls - Mary Hogan-Finlay, Nicholas P. Spanos, and Bill Jones Men Who Cross-Dress: A Survey - Bonnie Bullough and Vern Bullough Culturally Universal Aspects of Male Homosexual Transvestites and Transsexuals - Frederick L. Whitam The Transvestite's Lover: Identity and Behavior - Jacobo Schifter and Johnny Madrigal 4. Insights from History and Anthropology The Gender Heresy of Akhenaten - Winnie Brant The Gynemimetic Shaman: Evolutionary Origins of Male Sexual Inversion and Associated Talent - William Dragoin The Balkan Sworn Virgin: A Traditional European Transperson - Mildren Dickemann Wagner's "Letters to a Seamstress": Cross-Dressing, Egoism, and Polymorphous Perversity - Michael Saffle A Historical Perspective of Christine Jorgensen and the Development of an Identity - Linda Heidenreich 5. Literary Treatment of the Phenomenon of Cross-Dressing Saving Their Own Selves; Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing as a Means of Survival for Married Women in Two English plays - Keith Dorwick "This Strange Way of Meeting": Theatricality and the New Woman in Hardy's The Return of the Native - Lisa Nakamura The Boys Don't Count: Or Why Won't Shakespeare Put His Men in Dresses? - Lynn M. Thompson "Just Man Enough to Play the Boy": Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Mid-Victorian England - Ellen Bayuk Rosenbaum 6. The Changing Face of the Transgender Community - Mariette Pathy Allen 7. Standards of Care Results of a Questionnaire on the Standards of care of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association - Dallas Denny and Jan Roberts Revision of the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care in Progress - Friedemann Pfafflin SRS Tomorrow: The Physical Continuum - Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni Sex Reassignment Surgery in Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Client Satisfaction in Relation to Selection Criteria - Janis R. Walworth 8. Counseling and Treatment Current State of Transsexual Surgery: A Brief Overview - Stanley H. Biber Transsexualism in China in 1995 - Xia Zhaoji and Wang Chuanmin, Reported by Vern Bullough Patterns in and Treatments for Gender Dysphoria - Gretchen Finke and Roger Northway The Hotline Call, or "How to Do a Year's Psychotherapy in Thirty Minutes or less" - Yvonne Cook-Riley Religion and Cross-Gender Behavior: Wellspring of Hope or Swamp of Despair? - Kathryn J. Helms The Use of Dance/Movement in the Adjustment to a New Gender Role - Jayne Thomas and Annette Cardona Gender Attitude Reassessment Program (GARP) - Ariadne Kane 9. Law and Legal Issues Law and Transsexualism - Louis H. Swartz Legislating for Transsexual Rights: A Prescriptive Form - Stephen Whittle Cross-Dressing in the United Kingdom: The Law - Richard Green Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health Care - Lisa Middleton 10. Personal Observations Seventy Years in the Trenches of the Gender Wars - Virginia Prince Fighting the Battles - Michele Kammerer Metamorphosis: Man in the Making (A Personal and Political Perspective) - Rupert Raj The Inner Dimensions of Gender Transformation - Lee Etscovitz Transsexuality and Religion: A Personal Journey - Karen F. Kroll A Legal path of Androgyny - Lynn Edward Harris What is a Transgenderist? - Kymberleigh Richards Appendix: Standards of Care
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