Blending Genders

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Author: Richard Ekins

ISBN-10: 0415115523

ISBN-13: 9780415115520

Category: Transsexuals -> Social aspects

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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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.

List of platesList of contributorsForewordAcknowledgementsBlending Genders - An Introduction11In Female Attire: Male Experiences of Cross-Dressing - Some Historical Fragments92Becoming a Man: The Personal Account of a Female-to-Male Transsexual273The Career Path of the Male Femaler394The 'Drag Queen Scene': Transsexuals in Kings Cross535A Heterosexual Transvestite Club636London Grandeur: The Porchester Ball707Gender Blending: Medical Perspectives and Technology798The Socio-Medical Construction of Transsexualism: An Interpretation and Critique999120 Years of Male Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing in English and American Literature12310Cross-Dressing, Sex-Changing and the Press13311Male Femaling, Telephone Sex and the Case of Intimacy Scripts15112Divided Sisterhood: A Critical Review of Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire17113Autobiographical Fragments from a Transsexual Activist19014Gender Fucking or Fucking Gender? Current Cultural Contributions to Theories of Gender Blending19615The Politics of Transgenderism215Appendix I: A chronological listing of English and American short stories and novels featuring cross-dressing and sex-changing225Appendix II: A guide to resources227Bibliography229Index244