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by Richard Ekins (Author) "As I sit on the Belfast-London shuttle, shortly after signing the contract to write this book, cross-dressing and sex-changing seem far removed ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (19 Dec 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415106257
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415106252
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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..."among the best in recent literature....highly informative....Elkins offers a major new theoretical approach."
-"Transformation
..."the book is worth reading. Ekins has selected vivid cases of gender arrangements and encourages readers to think about them in the broadest possible way."
-"American Journal of Sociology
"The author's theory of "male femaling" is surely quite original and challenges simplistic or one-dimensional views of the formation of gender identity."
-"Choice
..."Etkins offers a conceptually rich description of a wide variety of behaviors. Etkins makes a valuable contribution to understanding gender as performance...."
-Richard Tewksbury, University of Louisville "Contemporary Sociology


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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). 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 ermergent nature of much cross-dressing and sex-changing 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. Male-Femaling provides social and cultural theorists with a lively case study for the generation of new theory. Social psychologists and sociologists interested in seeing grounded theory applied to a particular case study will be well rewarded. It will be essential reading for students of gender studies who seek to explore the interrelations between sex, sexuality and gender from the informants' point of view.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A social science view of gender identity for everyone, 6 Jul 1999
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A social scientist's view of those males who transcend, cross or simply experiment with the gender barriers. Sounds daunting, but the book is well and entertainly written for the lay reader, yet is essential for the serious researcher of gender roles.

The first part explores the themes of sex, sexuality and gender crossing, from the public view, portrayed by the media, to the private experience of the gender changer.

The study proper begins with the second section, 'Mainly Theory', where the author compares the grounded theory approach with other conceptual models. In particular, he highlights the way they impose assumptions about the essential 'rightness' of existing gender organisation, with transgression seen as a pathology or 'deviance'. The author goes on to explore his subject from the Social World viewpoint, before concentrating on the methodology which grounded theory brings to the subject. In this it is clear that this is one of the few books that don't have an overt or covert political agenda.

The final part traces the progress of many gender people, from a person's beginning of male-femaling, through fantasy, to doing male-femaling. The wealth of intimate detail across a wide range of 'male femaling' makes for interesting but extremely informative reading. In particular, "Constituting" male-femaling describes a process that so many helplines are familiar with - the search for a final identity - a 'label that fits.' For this the author draws on the personal correspondence which has been donated to the Transgender Archive. The final chapter is consolidation, both of the book and of the personal journeys of its subjects.

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