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Male femaling : a grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing
- Title
- Male femaling : a grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing / Richard Ekins ; foreword by Anselm Strauss.
- Author
- Ekins, Richard, 1945-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ77 .E45 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 185 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Gender nonconformity
- Social psychology
- Sex role
- Cross-dressing
- Gender identity
- Transsexualism
- Transvestism
- Sexual and Gender Minorities
- Gender Identity
- Transsexualism
- Psychology, Social
- Gender Role
- transgenderism
- social psychology
- sex role
- Gender identity
- Cross-dressing
- Sex role
- Social psychology
- Gender nonconformity
- Transsexualität
- Crossdressing
- Transvestitisme
- Transseksualiteit
- Transvestitismus
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
- ISBN
- 0415106249
- 9780415106245
- 0415106257
- 9780415106252
- LCCN
- 96016356
- OCLC
- ocm34515190
- 34515190
- SCSB-14692211
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library