By Richard Ekins, Dave King
CHOICE journal extraordinary educational name for 2007
`The box of "transgender" and "transpositionality" has been carved out as a brand new box of inquiry long ago decade, displaying the fragmentation and diversification of masculinities and feminities - in addition to the mistake of any sharp polarisation. Dave King and Richard Ekins are the top global sociologists during this box and feature mined it richly because the 1970's. The ebook brings jointly a super synthesis of background, case reports, rules and positions as they've got emerged over the last thirty years, and brings jointly a wealthy yet continuously grounded account of this box, supplying a state-of-the-art of serious options and concepts to take this box additional in the course of the 21st century. it is a needs to learn for all attracted to this new sector of inquiry ' - Ken Plummer, Professor of Sociology, college of Essex. Editor of Sexualities. writer of Intimate Citizenship
`An extraordinary survey of the evolution of trans phenomena, wonderfully written, hugely informative, scholarly at its top, but effortless to learn even for these neither trans nor sociologist. Drs Ekins and King, specialists within the box, unroll the panoramas of intercourse, gender, and transgendering that experience evloved over the last many years. for everybody desirous to comprehend the interplay of girls and males and of these who can't or won't determine with both of those cataegories, analyzing this publication is a needs to, and a true pleasure' - <i>Professor Friedmann Pfaefflin, collage of ULM
`In a piece destined to be a vintage, Ekins and King supply a accomplished evaluation of the variety of latest transgender expression, in addition to a powerful conceptual framework for making feel of that variety. The plentiful case vignettes convey the authors' options to existence and make the publication a excitement to read' - <b><i>Dr Anne Lawrence, scientific Sexologist in inner most perform, Seattle
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</i>`An awesome survey of the evolution of trans phenomena, wonderfully written, hugely informative, scholarly at its top, but effortless to learn even for these neither trans nor sociologist. Drs Ekins and King, specialists within the box, unroll the panoramas of intercourse, gender, and transgendering that experience evloved over the last many years. for everybody desirous to comprehend the interplay of ladies and males and of these who can't or won't determine with both of those cataegories, interpreting this ebook is a needs to, and a true pleasure' -
This groundbreaking examine units out a framework for exploring transgender range for the recent millennium. It units forth an unique and finished study and gives a wealth of vibrant illustrative material.
Based on 20 years of fieldwork, existence heritage paintings, qualitative research, archival paintings and make contact with with a number of thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the globe, the authors distinguish a few modern transgendering `stories' to illustrate:
" the binary male/female divide;
" the interrelations betwen intercourse, sexuality and gender;
" the interrelations among the most sub-processes of transgendering.
Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an unique and leading edge conceptual framkework for knowing the entire diversity of the transgender experience.