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Unzipping gender: sex, cross-dressing and culture
This work compares transvestism across cultures, in particular it compares transvestites in Britain with the Hijras of India. It considers how emotion, mythology, imagery, and beliefs influence ideas about sex and gender. The author challenges the straightforward binary divide t…
Time binds: queer temporalities, queer histories
'Time Binds' is a powerful argument that temporal dissonance & sexual dissonance are intertwined & that the writing of history can be both embodied & erotic. "Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history …
The changing room: sex, drag and theatre
"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive ass…
In this fascinating personal journey through history, the author uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender.
"Transgender History covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today. Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapter 1 covers the tran…
Dr. Rudd addresses many of the questions frequently asked by the spouses, families, and friends of crossdressers and candidly explores the related emotions that range from frustration to elation.
"The first book-length study of romance novels to focus on issues of sexuality rather than gender, Historical Romance Fiction moves the ongoing debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of critical theorists on everything from …