1st Edition
Male Femaling A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing
By Richard Ekins
Copyright 1997
202 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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The glamour of transvestite fashion is the epitome of 90s style, but the significance of cross-dressing and sex-changing goes much deeper than the annals of fashion. Ekins vividly details the innermost desires and the varied practices of males who wear the clothes of women for the pleasure it gives them (cross-dressers), or who wish to change sex and are actively going about it (sex-changers).... Read more
List of Figures, Foreword, PROLOGUE, Part I Introduction, 1. THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FACES OF CROSSDRESSING AND SEX-CHANGING, Part II Mainly theory, 2. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF GROUNDED THEORY, 3. THE SOCIAL WORLDS OF CROSS-DRESSING AND SEX-CHANGING, 4. MALE FEMALING, MASKED AWARENESS CONTEXTS AND THE METHODOLOGY OF GROUNDED THEORY, Part III Mainly practice, 5. BEGINNING MALE FEMALING, 6. FANTASYING MALE FEMALING, 7. DOING MALE FEMALING, 8. CONSTITUTING MALE FEMALING, 9. CONSOLIDATING MALE FEMALING, 10. CONCLUSION, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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Ekins, Richard
