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Crossdressing Book Reviews These book reviews are based on keyword searches. Since individual book titles can appear in more than one category, you may see some book titles repeated. |
 Crossdressing :: Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed As Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness |
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| Crossdressing :: Amazons and Military Maids |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/amazons-and-military.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing Although it covers a broad spectrum of experience (if from a somewhat limited viewpoint) I expected a lot more from a book that has Stephen Whittleand Janice Raymond contributing adjacent chapters. Thecore of the book is a debate about the historical construct- ion of "transgender" and its legitimacy in modern culture. The arguments against, with the exception of Raymond's revised introduction to the Transsexual Empire (1994), seem to predate the emergence of "transgender" as a term, and thus don't address any of the cultural developments that [more] |
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| Crossdressing :: The Bliss of Becoming One!: Integrating "Feminine" Feelings into the Male Psyche Mainstreaming the Gender Community As a transgendered person, I found this book to be a big help in my search for my gender identity. I applaud Rachel Miller for writing such a book and making people like me realize we are not alone. The advice she gives is just what I need to help get me through my ordeal, and if I could only meet her, I would give her a big hug. [more] |
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| Crossdressing :: Clothes Make the Man : Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe (New Middle Ages) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/clothes-make-mfemale-cross.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Confidential Correspondence on Cross Dressing, Part II, 1916-1920 |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/confidential-correspondence.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender A marvelous read that goes well into the sexological depths of cross dressing. It resists a disease model approach discussion of gender variance and gives a more interdisciplinary account. Since the authors have been providing great contributions to the field of transgender studies for so long, they are easily able to provide historical analyses of cross dressing, sex and gender that are rivetting. This is but one of the amazing texts in their treasure trove. It can easily be read by both scholars and a general reader since it is so [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/cross-dressing-sex-and.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Cross Purposes: On Being Christian and Crossgendered (Sullivan Press Monograph Series) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/cross-purposes-on-being.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Crossdressers: And Those Who Share Their Lives I recently came out of the crossdressing closet to my wife. Peggy's book helped us both understand what I and others go through in dealing with CDing. [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/crossdressers-and-those-who.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Crossdressing With Dignity: The Case for Transcending Gender Lines After reading Dr. Rudd's wonderful first book, My Husband Wears My Clothes, I was eager to read her second book, Crossdressing With Dignity. I was not disappointed. This book gave me the answers I was seeking about the fears and guilt feelings I had experienced most of my life when I admitted to myself and others that I was a crossdresser. After reading this book which describes over 800 crossdressers like me, I know I am not alone and I am an OK person. In fact I learned I may have found the best of both sides of my personality, the [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/crossdressing-with-dignity.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Crossing the Stage : Controversies on Cross-Dressing |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/crossing-stage-controversies.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Det andra jaget vid manlig transvestism: Ett jagteoretiskt och kognitionspsykologiskt perspektiv (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/det-andrjaget-vid-manlig.htm |
| Crossdressing :: The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawless Customary World of Female Impersonators (Journal of Homosexuality) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/drag-queen-anthology.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Drag Diaries A collection of interviews with several drag queens, varying in readability. The pictures are wonderful, and the interview with Quentin Crisp is especially delightful. [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/drag.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Dressing Up : Transvestism |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/dressing-up.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Fantastic Women: Sex, Gender, and Transvestism I just want to describe this book as perfect. I don't really have my way with words but this books catches every aspect of being a transvestite. It describes the true real feelings of wanting something so bad but still to ne scared of what other people think. This is an unbelievable book which I personally think every transvestite or person who got the feeling of a transvestite should read. It really gives you an insight in your soul and life. [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/fantastic-women-sex-gender.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Feminizing Hormonal Therapy For The Transgendered |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/feminizing-hormonal-therapy.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Forbidden Fantasies |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/forbidden.htm |
| Crossdressing :: From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) From Toads to Queens gave a unique understanding of life of a transvestite in South America and how unique those individuals are thought to be and the relationship with the transvestites and the members of the community [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/from-toads-to-queens.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Hersey, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross-Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery, wh I read this book, but as a cross dresser, I did not find answers for me in this book. I found it informative about the many diverse classifications of transgenderism. I would not suggest this for a transgendered person to find help, but I would suggest it for a person trying to learn about transgenderism and it's many facits. I found many of the statements in the book to come from the psychiatric community, not from transgenderd people themselves. It is a book looking in, not a book from within. [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/gender-blending-transvestism.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is: "Traversing Gender: Cultural Context and Gender Practices," by Anne Bolin. Bolin offers her "five-form model of gender-variance." The importance of her examination of the ethnographic record and development of a five-form model of gender variance cannot be overestimated. Ramet has drawn together a very worthy collection of scholarly articles that truly turn the two-sex, two-gender mind set into child's play. Here is an exceptional collection of [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/gender-reversals-and-gender.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag Masterfully done by a man (photographer Michael James O'Brien) & a woman (Holly Brubach), who share a real appreciation of the fine art of cross- dressing & its trials & triumphs, this is the best, most caring analysis of drag & its artists I've ever read & the empathy & depth of perception caught by the photos (some color, some b/w) is alone more than worth the full price of admission (which I was glad to pay in the bookstore!) [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/girlfriend-men-women.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets i grew up in a small southern town that was fantastically inhabited by what seemed an inordinate number of flamboyant black drag queens. as a child i marveled at their screaming visibility, and always kept one eye peeled for a glimpse of a sashaying stormy or randy ball or any of the other girls, now long dead. as a grown woman (gay, incidentally) living in a much larger, but still southern city, i remain fascinated by the miss thangs that i encounter in clubs and on street corners. this book is a raw and unflinching peek into the lives of [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/honey-honey-miss-thang-being.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Human Sex Change and Sex Reversal: Transvestism and Transsexualism (Symposium Series (Edwin Mellen Press), V. 45.) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/humsex-change-and-sex.htm |
| Crossdressing :: In Female Disguise |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/in-female.htm |
| Crossdressing |
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| Crossdressing :: Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing The term "male femaling" refers to one variant of "transgendering," wherein people adopt aspects of roles (as in appearances, interests, dispositions, and life-styles) associated with people of another gender. Although the topic of males endeavoring to "be female" in one or other respects is one that some people are apt to find disconcerting, this is a unique and valuable study of people's experiences in "gendering" or assuming roles as males and females. Building on a set of contacts that extend over seventeen years, Richard Ekins has [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/male-femaling-grounded-theory.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Male Homosexuality in Four Societies: Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States On the one hand, Mr. Whitam and the people (graduate students?) who worked under him must have had major funding to compare gay men in three different countries to those in the US. On the other, the cruddy font that was used and the lack of sophistication in the writing suggests something more amateur. This book was very informative for me when I was writing a paper on homosexuality in Brazil at Brown University. Plus, the whole constructionism vs. essentialism debate is tiresome when almost no one argues in favor of essentialism. Well, this [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/male-homosexuality-in-four.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Medical, Legal and Workplace Issues For The Transsexual This book should be considered an essential read for anyone who is transsexual or thinks that they may be. It gives straight forward concise information for both the M2F and the F2M individual. Dr. Kirk, herself a TS person, writes with unbiased and up-to-date accuracy, touching on virtually every area a transperson must consider as they start their journey. On a personal note, it is considered a fundamental resource by the therapist (and all who have read it) in the gender-identity group I am involved in and for good reason; short of spending [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/medical-legal-and-workplace.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Men in Dresses: a Study of Transvestism and Cross-dressing |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/men-in-dresses-study-of.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Men in Frocks |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/men-in.htm |
| Crossdressing :: The Man in the Red Velvet Dress: Inside the World of Cross-Dressing This book begins at a party to which the author is wearing his new red velvet dress. One of the other partygoers, a woman, asks him why he crossdresses. He is again reminded just how complicated the answer to that question is and decides to write this book as a response. However, he doesn't just try to explain why he crossdresses, he also tries to explain why other people do too---including people whose reasons are often completely different from his own. In doing so, he organizes his answer in a way that sheds light on all of the myriad [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/min-red-velvet-dress-inside.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Miss Vera's Cross-Dress for Success: A Resource Guide for Boys Who Want to Be Girls How lucky we are to have Veronica Vera. She is our muse, our every-woman, full to bursting with warmth and radiant sexuality. Her wonderful book gives expression to the feminine self so many of us have fought to deny, and encourages us to explore and be happy. This is sex-positive writing at its best. Ms. Vera offers us a humorous and intelligent book. The practical information given is mixed with her experiences of working with gender explorers of all stripes (and there are a lot of stripes out there!). The exploration of their true sexual [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/miss-veras-cross-dress.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls As the not-yet ex-wife of a very decent cross-dressing guy, I wanted to throw Miss Vera across the room. High camp aimed at titillating straight people who want to de-demonize transvestites, I suppose it's harmless. But the woman writing the book, supposedly representative of biological born-women women, seems to be promoting the idea of women as Barbie and transvestite men as wanting to be Barbie. Since one of the most objectionable things I find in my husband's desire to dress female is that he has a kind of Theme Park, Disneyfied idea of [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/miss-veras-finishing-school.htm |
| Crossdressing :: The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales of Hindu Lore (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/mwho-was-woman-and-other.htm |
| Crossdressing :: My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser This is an honest and intense account of what it is like to be married to a crossdresser. Helen Boyd's acceptance and openness, while at the same time acknowledging her own feelings of trepidation concerning some aspects of this new life, is remarkable and admirable. There are no cross-dressers in my life, (that I am aware of) and I still found this book to be very worthwhile for the honest approach and thorough investigation of the subject. [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/my-husband-betty-love-sex.htm |
| Crossdressing :: My Husband Wears My Clothes: Crossdressing from the Perspective of a Wife I learned about my husband's crossdressing 15 years after our marriage and was devastated! I knew that I loved this man but was fearful of what would happen next. Did he want to become a woman! Was he gay? I sought counseling and was given the book, My Husband Wears My Clothes, by Dr. Peggy Rudd. Dr. Rudd, who also is the wife of a crossdresser, should be nominated for sainthood. Reading this book, which presents the bad with the good, helped saved my sanity and my marriage. I love my husband no matter what he wears - if he would only let me [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/my-husband-wears-my-clothes.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel (Reading Women Writing) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/narrative-transvestism.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude After a popular novel and two stunning collections of short stories, psychotherapist and fiction writer Amy Bloom turns an eye toward gender, and her new non-fiction book is a knockout. Made up of three individual essays and an Afterword called "On Nature," Bloom examines issues of gender that are outside what most of society calls "normal." In "The Body Lies: Female-to-Male Transsexuals," we are introduced to a number of people born genetically male who are living as women (with or without sex reassignment surgery); in the section on [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/normal-transsexual-ceos.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach In a nutshell, Mollenkott examines the "binary gender construct" that holds us all hostage. In a world centered around the binary gender construct, we are all pigeon-holded into one of two sexes from birth -- male or female -- and from there, we hammered by social pressure to conform to the associated culturally-defined gender roles. That is, men must be "masculine" men and women must be "feminine" women. Mollenkott debunks the validity of the binary gender construct by first questioning the biological reality of the two sexes -- male, female. [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/omnigender-trans-religious.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Out & About: The Emancipated Crossdresser This book was great! Very informative. I would recommend it to everyone who thinks they would enjoy this lifestyle. Lacey is the best at putting this lifestyle into perspective. She has tips on dressing, makeup, security, and everyday living. This book is real. It comes from her heart. Read it! [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/out-&-about-emancipated.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Sex and Gender: On the Development of Masculinity and Femininity |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/sex-and-gender-on-development.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism The reviewer who claimed that Califia thinks that transexuals should not exist or change their bodies clearly did not read the book. Not only does she protect transexuals, transgenders and gender misfits in general, she praises transsexual Kate Bornstien lavishly, calling her brave, beautiful and brilliant. What Califia does is question the binary categorization of gender, given that humanity is expressed on a spectrum of gender expression, not two distinct categories. Why do people feel the need to pathologize those that don't cleanly fit? [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/sex-changes-politics-of.htm |
| Crossdressing :: SEXUAL VARIATIONS |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/sexual.htm |
| Crossdressing :: The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/tradition-of-female.htm |
| Crossdressing :: TransActions At first this book starts out as a hard read but when ya give it a chance you find that it grips you and pulls you in!!!I found so much truth and wisdom about being trans and transitioning and encouragement that i was uplifted by reading it!!!I did find though that even though erica didnt face alot of ridicule she does aknowledge that the discrimination does exist!!!And like one of the reviews wriiten about this book i did find i cut through alot of myth's which is soooo needed in the trans community !!!! I would recomend this book to anyone [more] |
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| Crossdressing :: Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them This book is a real slice of life...reading it is like getting to meet a wonderful group of people and hearing their many heartfelt stories. The photographs are sensitive and beautiful. In some places, this book made me cry.... [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transformations-crossdressers.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman Of course this book is personal. Of course it is passionate. It is an important attempt by a recognized trans author and amateur historian to catalyze a larger project of tracing authentic patterns of gender expression that don't conform to the binary that has been forced upon society since the rise of class divisions (i.e., since the collapse of "primitive" or "tribal" collectivism). And the book thereby contributes to efforts to demystify the notion that "two sexes" are a scientific fact and historical truth. Hopefully others will pick up [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transgender-warriors-making.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Transgender Nation This book highlights the sociopolitical aspect of transgender.The author says the ultimate solution of transgender is the change of USA's bipolarism society.In Japan, I think the situation is somewhat different.The bipolarism and homophobia are not so strong.Rather,the phobia for SRS is very strong.The reason is Japanese think the body is as important as the soul and cutting off the part of the body is sinful. So , this book also gave me a chance to think the cultural differences between the two countries. [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transgender.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Transsexuality in the Male: The Spectrum of Gender Dysphoria (American lecture series ; publication no. 1030) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transsexuality-in-male.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature : Genders Share Flesh |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transvestism-masculinity.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Transvestism within a partnership of marriage and families |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transvestism-within.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Transvestism And The Onnagata Traditions In Shakespeare And Kabuki |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transvestism.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior (Perspectives in Sexuality) This book is an excellent summary of the psychological research on the subject and presents a theory of the origins and process of heterosexual transvestites. It establishes a research methodology and the results. However, due to the population available the results can not meet complete and definitive research standards and the results are therefore supposition based on the available data. Found the book to be very technical, but it provides much background on past reserach. It presents its data, assumptions and qualifies the reserach results [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/transvestites.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire, the Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender and Culture) Don Kulick provides an excellent example of anthropologists dealing with the tough issues of gender and sexuality research. He demonstrates how connected anthropologists become to those they study; and further challenges us to consider closeness, concern, and friendship with our informants as methodologies that speak not only to our own humanity as anthropologists but also to the humanity of our communities of study. I have used this book to teach introduction to cultural anthropology course and it is a perfect blend of theory, narrative, and [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/travesti-sex-gender.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Unzipping Gender : Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture (Dress, Body, Culture) |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/unzipping-gender-sex-cross.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety first off, i can't say i would recommend this book to someone who doesn't have a more academic background, flitting as it does from foucault to freud & back again, but i have to say that it's critique & thesis are well-reasoned, well-argued, & definitely well-referenced! it's like a cross dressing field guide in some ways... i found myself making up a list of movies/books to check out. even moreso, it's a great book for anyone wanting to study gender construction in general... as it gets at that shadowy figure inbetween the genders, who [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/vested-interests-cross.htm |
| Crossdressing :: Who's Really from Venus: The Tale of Two Genders Looking at the message from the author that she so thoughtfully placed on the inner cover - "Dear Dana, Please accept this book as my token of appreciation for your many contributions to the gender community. Keep up the good work. Love, Peggy" - shows what a kind heart was behind the words of this book. Dr. Rudd is married, and her life partner is transgendered. This book is an open love letter to her soul mate and not a primer on "How to Apply Make-up". Peggy displays, in her own wonderful way, the ability to put into words her life [more] |
| http://www.transgendercare.com/bookreviews/crossdressing/whos-really-from-venus-tale.htm |
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