1st Edition

Blending Genders Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex Changing

By Richard Ekins, David King Copyright 1996
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1995, the book describes personal experiences of those who cross-dress and sex change, how they organise themselves socially - in both `outsider' and `respectable' communities. The contributors consider the dominant medical framework through which gender blending is so often seen and look at the treatment afforded gender blending in literature, the press and the recently... Read more
List of plates, List of contributors, Foreword by Ken Plummer, Acknowledgements, BLENDING GENDERS—AN INTRODUCTION, Part I Experiencing gender blending, Part II The social organisation of gender blending, Part III The medicalisation of gender blending, Part IV Gender blending and the media, Part V Gender blending and gender politics, APPENDIX I, APPENDIX II, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Ekins, Richard; King, David