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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779965803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• ISBN: 1-134-82057-7; 1-134-82058-5; 9780203295420; 1-280-32550-X; 0-203-29542-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EkinsRichard <1945->; KingDave <1947->
• Disciplina: 306.77
• Soggetti: Gender nonconformity; Transgender people; Sex role
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.