Male Femaling: A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing

ISBN-13: 9780415106245 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str.

Richard Ekins

Opis

The glamour of transvestite fashion is the epitome of 1990s style, but the significance of cross-dressing and sex-changing goes much deeper than the annals of fashion. In this volume, the author details the 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). Giving precedence to the processual and emergent nature of much cross-dressing and sex-changing phenomena, the text traces the phased femaling career path of the male femaler from beginning femaling through to consolidating femaling.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ekins, Richard