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The transgender phenomenon / Richard Ekins and Dave King.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006Description: xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761971637
  • 9780761971634
  • 0761971645
  • 9780761971641
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.768 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ77.9 .E55 2006
Contents:
Telling transgendering tales -- Migrating stories -- Oscillating stories -- Negating stories -- Transcending stories -- Conclusion.
Summary: "`The field of "transgender" and "transpositionality" has been carved out as a new field of inquiry in the past decade, showing the fragmentation and diversification of masculinities and feminities - along with the error of any sharp polarisation. Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field and have mined it richly since the 1970's. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further during the twenty first century. This is a must read for all interested in this new area of inquiry ' - Ken Plummer, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex. Editor of Sexualities. Author of Intimate Citizenship ; ; This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid illustrative material. ; ; Based on two decades of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the world, the authors distinguish a number of contemporary transgendering `stories' to illustrate: ; ; " the binary male/female divide; ; " the interrelations betwen sex, sexuality and gender; ; " the interrelations between the main sub-processes of transgendering. ; ; Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an original and innovative conceptual framkework for understanding the full range of the transgender experience."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-253) and index.

Telling transgendering tales -- Migrating stories -- Oscillating stories -- Negating stories -- Transcending stories -- Conclusion.

"`The field of "transgender" and "transpositionality" has been carved out as a new field of inquiry in the past decade, showing the fragmentation and diversification of masculinities and feminities - along with the error of any sharp polarisation. Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field and have mined it richly since the 1970's. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further during the twenty first century. This is a must read for all interested in this new area of inquiry ' - Ken Plummer, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex. Editor of Sexualities. Author of Intimate Citizenship ; ; This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid illustrative material. ; ; Based on two decades of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the world, the authors distinguish a number of contemporary transgendering `stories' to illustrate: ; ; " the binary male/female divide; ; " the interrelations betwen sex, sexuality and gender; ; " the interrelations between the main sub-processes of transgendering. ; ; Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an original and innovative conceptual framkework for understanding the full range of the transgender experience."--Publisher description.

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