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Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
Jason Cromwell
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Description for Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
Paperback. Presents an examination of what it means to be a female-bodied trans person. This book allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Writing as an insider and an anthropologist, Jason Cromwell presents the first in-depth examination of what it means to be a female-bodied transperson. Through extensive participant observation and open-ended interviews, Transmen and FTMs allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female.
In clarifying how transmen and FTMs define and validate their lives, as opposed to how society attempts to pigeonhole and belittle them, Cromwell shows how female-to-male transpeople have been made virtually invisible by male-dominated discourses. He considers cross-cultural ... Read more
Writing as an insider and an anthropologist, Jason Cromwell presents the first in-depth examination of what it means to be a female-bodied transperson. Through extensive participant observation and open-ended interviews, Transmen and FTMs allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female.
In clarifying how transmen and FTMs define and validate their lives, as opposed to how society attempts to pigeonhole and belittle them, Cromwell shows how female-to-male transpeople have been made virtually invisible by male-dominated discourses. He considers cross-cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068256
SKU
V9780252068256
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99-1
About Jason Cromwell
Jason Cromwell is the editor of Information for the Female to Male Crossdresser and Transsexual and has contributed chapters to Two-Spirit People: Perspectives on Native American Gender and Sexuality, edited by Sue Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, and other books.
Reviews for Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
ADVANCE PRAISE "This book provides wonderful documentation of transmen's lives and voices as well as an excellent critique of a number of discourses that marginalize, pathologize, and otherwise make transmen invisible." - Evelyn Blackwood, coeditor of Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures