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Gender Blending
by Bonnie Bullough (Editor),James Elias (Editor),Vern L. Bullough (Editor)
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| Edition: Hardcover |
| ISBN: 1573921246 |
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Publisher: Prometheus Books (April 1997)
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Dimensions : 1.37 x 9.33 x 6.38 (in inches)
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Description : From the Publisher
From cross-dressing to altering one's sex by undergoing hormone therapy and radical surgery, "gender blending" has reached new levels of popularity. Gender Blending is an up-to-date account of this compelling trend that is rapidly altering the frontiers of human sexuality. The changes occurring in this area of lifestyle research are vast and rapid. This book looks at biological, sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological, religious, and other aspects of gender blending to find common ground among researchers in all areas. By representing a unique collaboration of experts and those involved in gender blending, this groundbreaking work could spell the beginning of a sexual renaissance.
Gender Blending includes essays on transvestism (cross-dressing), gender heresy, androgyny, religion and the cross-dresser, transgender healthcare, free expression, sex change surgery, loving transvestites, gender blending in literature, virtual gender, counseling and treatment, the law and transsexuals, and much more.
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Review : From Publishers Weekly
A compendium of papers presented at a recent symposium sponsored by California State University's Center for Sex Research, this open-minded exploration of cross-dressing, transsexualism and cross-gender behavior bills itself as "a scholarly version of Stonewall." Combining research reports, case histories, personal narratives and manifestos, this eye-opening survey searchingly delves into trans-gender phenomena across centuries and cultures, from Joan of Arc to Native American peoples to present-day Brazil, Indonesia, Costa Rica and the U.S. The academic authors provide unusually thorough coverage of coming out, counseling, health care, the legal system, political activism and how the world's religions regard cross-gender behavior. Certain essays, however, border on the nonsensical; for instance, one academic argues that Wagner's fondness for fabrics, frills and dressing gowns is indicative of the androgyny permeating his music, while another writer concludes, on the basis of extremely slender archeological evidence, that pharaoh Akhenaten's alleged trans-gender identity led him to formulate revolutionary monotheism. Sexologist Vern Bullough is visiting professor at the University of Southern California, where the late Bonnie Bullough was a professor of nursing; Elias teaches sex therapy at California State.
Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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