Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex Changing

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 12
Foreword by Ken Plummer......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 20
BLENDING GENDERS;AN INTRODUCTION Richard Ekins and Dave King......Page 22
INTRODUCTION......Page 26
IN FEMALE ATTIRE: MALE EXPERIENCES OF CROSS-DRESSING;SOME HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS Peter Farrer......Page 30
BECOMING A MAN: THE PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF A FEMALE-TO-MALE TRANSSEXUAL Mark Rees......Page 48
THE CAREER PATH OF THE MALE FEMALER Richard Ekins......Page 60
INTRODUCTION......Page 70
THE 'DRAG QUEEN SCENE': TRANSSEXUALS IN KINGS CROSS Roberta Perkins......Page 74
A HETEROSEXUAL TRANSVESTITE CLUB Neil Buhrich......Page 84
LONDON GRANDEUR: THE PORCHESTER BALL Phaedra Kelly......Page 91
INTRODUCTION......Page 106
GENDER BLENDING: MEDICAL PERSPECTIVES AND TECHNOLOGY Dave King......Page 110
THE SOCIO-MEDICAL CONSTRUCTION OF TRANSSEXUALISM: AN INTERPRETATION AND CRITIQUE Dwight B.Billings and Thomas Urban......Page 130
INTRODUCTION......Page 150
120 YEARS OF MALE CROSS-DRESSING AND SEX-CHANGING IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Peter Farrer......Page 154
CROSS-DRESSING, SEX-CHANGING AND THE PRESS Dave King......Page 164
MALE FEMALING, TELEPHONE SEX AND THE CASE OF INTIMACY SCRIPTS Richard Ekins......Page 182
INTRODUCTION......Page 198
DIVIDED SISTERHOOD: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF JANICE RAYMOND'S THE TRANSSEXUAL EMPIRE Carol Riddell......Page 202
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS FROM A TRANSSEXUAL ACTIVIST Terri Webb......Page 221
GENDER FUCKING OR FUCKING GENDER? CURRENT CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEORIES OF GENDER BLENDING Stephen Whittle......Page 227
THE POLITICS OF TRANSGENDERISM Janice Raymond......Page 246
A chronological listing of English and American short stories and novels featuring cross-dressing and sex-changing......Page 256
A guide to resources......Page 258
Bibliography......Page 260
Index......Page 275