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...Etkins offers a conceptually rich description of a wide variety of behaviors. Etkins makes a valuable contribution to understanding gender as performance....
–Richard Tewksbury, University of Louisville Contemporary Sociology
...among the best in recent literature....highly informative....Elkins offers a major new theoretical approach.
–Transformation
...the book is worth reading. Ekins has selected vivid cases of gender arrangements and encourages readers to think about them in the broadest possible way.
–American Journal of Sociology
The author's theory of male femaling is surely quite original and challenges simplistic or one-dimensional views of the formation of gender identity.
–Choice
The authors theory of male femaling is surely quite original and challenges simplistic or one-dimensional views of the formation of gender identity.
–Choice
Product Description
Ekins vividly details the innermost desires and the varied practices of males who wear the clothes of women for the pleasure it gives them (cross-dressers), or who wish to change sex and are actively going about it (sex-changers).
This unique and fascinating book transforms an area of study previously dominated by clinical models to look instead at cross-dressing and sex-changing as a highly variable social process, tracing the path of the 'male femaler' from 'beginning' to 'consolidating' femaling. Based upon seventeen years of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers, the book develops a theory of 'male femaling' which has major ramifications for both the field of 'transvestism' and 'transexualism', and for the analysis of sex and gender more generally.
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...Etkins offers a conceptually rich description of a wide variety of behaviors. Etkins makes a valuable contribution to understanding gender as performance....
–Richard Tewksbury, University of Louisville Contemporary Sociology
...among the best in recent literature....highly informative....Elkins offers a major new theoretical approach.
–Transformation
...the book is worth reading. Ekins has selected vivid cases of gender arrangements and encourages readers to think about them in the broadest possible way.
–American Journal of Sociology
The author's theory of male femaling is surely quite original and challenges simplistic or one-dimensional views of the formation of gender identity.
–Choice
The authors theory of male femaling is surely quite original and challenges simplistic or one-dimensional views of the formation of gender identity.
–Choice
Product Description
Ekins vividly details the innermost desires and the varied practices of males who wear the clothes of women for the pleasure it gives them (cross-dressers), or who wish to change sex and are actively going about it (sex-changers).
This unique and fascinating book transforms an area of study previously dominated by clinical models to look instead at cross-dressing and sex-changing as a highly variable social process, tracing the path of the 'male femaler' from 'beginning' to 'consolidating' femaling. Based upon seventeen years of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers, the book develops a theory of 'male femaling' which has major ramifications for both the field of 'transvestism' and 'transexualism', and for the analysis of sex and gender more generally.
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As I sit on the Belfast-London shuttle, shortly after signing the contract to write this book, cross-dressing and sex-changing seem far removed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
male femalers, doing femaling, male femaling, gender femaling, femaling phase, femaling activities, femaling career path, fantasy femaling, femaling worlds, body femaling, fantasying femaling, many femalers, femaling self, femaling fantasies, gender femalers, constituting femaling, erotic femalers, masturbatory scripts, erotic femaling, social structural unit, gender transient, glamorous female impersonators, intimacy scripts, interrelations between sex, subcultural literature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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As I sit on the Belfast-London shuttle, shortly after signing the contract to write this book, cross-dressing and sex-changing seem far removed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
male femalers, doing femaling, male femaling, gender femaling, femaling phase, femaling activities, femaling career path, fantasy femaling, femaling worlds, body femaling, fantasying femaling, many femalers, femaling self, femaling fantasies, gender femalers, constituting femaling, erotic femalers, masturbatory scripts, erotic femaling, social structural unit, gender transient, glamorous female impersonators, intimacy scripts, interrelations between sex, subcultural literature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Beaumont Society, Phaedra Kelly, United Kingdom, Trans-Gender Archive, Isle of Wight, Maid Marion, Sue Ellen, Vicky Lee New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing by Richard Ekins on 5 pages
- More Grounded Theory Methodology: A reader by Barney G. Glaser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics) by Daniel Paul Schreber on page 110, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History by Gilbert Herdt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Telling Sexual Stories by Ken Plummer on page 164, and Back Matter
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- Current Concepts in Transgender Identity (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) by Dallas Denny on page 181, page 193, and Back Matter
- Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People by Viviane Namaste on page 31, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Revealing Male Bodies by Nancy Tuana on page 125, page 144, and Back Matter
- Telling Sexual Stories by Ken Plummer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- on page 89, and page 104
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