Male femaling : a grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing / Richard Ekins ; foreword by Anselm Strauss.

  • Ekins, Richard, 1945-
Date:
1997
  • Books

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Description

This unique and fascinating book transforms an area of study previously dominated by clinical models to look instead at cross-dressing and sex-changing as a highly variable social process. Giving precedence to the processual and emergent nature of much cross-dressing and sex-shanging phenomena, the book traces the phased femaling career path of the 'male femaler' from 'beginning femaling' through to 'consolidating femaling'. Based upon seventeen years of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers, the book meticulously and systematically develops a theory of 'male femaling' which has major ramifications for both the field of 'transvestism' and 'transsexualism', and for the analysis of sex and gender more generally.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Physical description

xv, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-176) and index.

Contents

1. The Public and Private Faces of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing -- 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 -- 5. Beginning Male Femaling -- 6. Fantasying Male Femaling -- 7. Doing Male Femaling -- 8. Constituting Male Femaling -- 9. Consolidating Male Femaling -- 10. Conclusion.

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    History of Medicine
    TPO /EKI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0415106249
  • 9780415106245
  • 0415106257
  • 9780415106252