Blending genders : social aspects of cross-dressing and sex-changing / edited by Richard Ekins and Dave King.

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King Ekins Staff [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Description
1 online resource (288 p.)

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Summary note
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-243) and index.
Language note
English
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
ISBN
  • 1-134-82057-7
  • 1-134-82058-5
  • 9780203295420
  • 1-280-32550-X
  • 0-203-29542-0
OCLC
252787313
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203201442
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