Table of Contents

List of Figures, Foreword, PROLOGUE, Part I Introduction, 1. THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FACES OF CROSSDRESSING AND SEX-CHANGING, Part II Mainly theory, 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, Part III Mainly practice, 5. BEGINNING MALE FEMALING, 6. FANTASYING MALE FEMALING, 7. DOING MALE FEMALING, 8. CONSTITUTING MALE FEMALING, 9. CONSOLIDATING MALE FEMALING, 10. CONCLUSION, Notes, Bibliography, Index

About the Author

Ekins, Richard

Reviews

..."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