Blending genders : social aspects of cross-dressing and sex-changing

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Part I: Experiencing Gender Blending

In female attire : male experiences of cross-dressing, some historical fragments / Peter Farrer

Becoming a man : the personal account of a female-to-male transsexual / Mark Rees

The career path of the male femaler / Richard Ekins

Part II: The Social Organisation of Gender Blending

The 'drag queen scene' : transsexuals in Kings Cross / Roberta Perkins

A heterosexual transvestite club / Neil Buhrich

London grandeur : the Porchester Ball / Phaedra Kelly

Part III: The Medicalisation of Gender Blending

Gender blending : medical perspectives and technology / Dave King

The socio-medical construction of transsexualism : an interpretation and critique / Dwight B. Billings and Thomas Urban

Part IV: Gender Blending and the Media

120 years of male cross-dressing and sex-changing in English and American literature / Peter Farrer

Cross-dressing, sex-changing and the press / Dave King

Male femaling, telephone sex and the case of intimacy scripts / Richard Ekins

Part V: Gender Blending and Gender Politics

Divided sisterhood : a critical review of Janice Raymond's The transsexual empire / Carol Riddell

Autobiographical fragments from a transsexual activist / Terri Webb

Gender fucking or fucking gender? Current cultural contributions to theories of gender blending / Stephen Whittle

The politics of transgenderism / Janice Raymond