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BLENDING GENDERS
Gender blending, or transgenderism, is at the cutting edge of contemporary
debates about sex, sexuality and gender. The term ‘transgender’ includes
transvestites, transsexuals, drag queens, gender benders and all gender
blenders, whether straight or gay, who in their cross-dressing and sex-
changing ‘transgress’ the binary divide between the sexes.
Blending Genders
is concerned with those who attempt to blend various aspects of genders,
either in respect of themselves or others. The book describes the personal
experiences of those who cross-dress and sex-change, and details how
they organise themselves socially—in both ‘outsider’ and ‘respectable’
communities. The authors consider the dominant medical framework through
which cross-dressing and sex-changing are predominantly viewed. A
comprehensive treatment is afforded to gender blending in literature, the
press and the recently emerged telephone sex lines. The book concludes
with a discussion of the lively debates that have taken place concerning
the politics of transgenderism in recent years, and examines its prominence
in recent contributions to contemporary cultural and queer theory.
Blending
Genders
is the first comprehensive treatment of the social aspects of cross-
dressing and sex-changing and, as such, can rightly lay first claim to an
emerging field of transgender studies.
Contributors:
Dwight B.Billings, Neil Buhrich, Peter Farrer, Phaedra Kelly,
Roberta Perkins, Janice Raymond, Mark Rees, Carol Riddell, Thomas Urban,
Terri Webb and Stephen Whittle.
Richard Ekins
is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis
at the University of Ulster.
Dave King
is Lecturer in the Department of
Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Studies at the University of
Liverpool.
BLENDING GENDERS
Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing
and Sex-Changing
Edited by
Richard Ekins and Dave King
London and New York
First published 1996
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1996 Selection and Editorial matter, Richard Ekins and Dave King.
Individual chapters, the Contributors.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any
electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or
hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
or in any information storage or retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from
the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
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ISBN 0-415-11551-5 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-11552-3 (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-20144-2 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-20147-7 (Glassbook Format)
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