Male Femaling

This unique and fascinating book, meticulously and systematically develops a theory of male femaling which has major ramifications for both the field of 'transvestism' and 'transsexualism' and for the analysis of sex and gender more generally.
The glamour of transvestite fashion is the epitome of 1990s style, but the significance of cross-dressing and sex-changing goes much deeper than the annals of fashion. In this volume, the author details the desires and the varied practices of males who wear the clothes of women for the pleasure it gives them (cross-dressers), or who wish to change sex and are actively going about it (sex-changers). Giving precedence to the processual and emergent nature of much cross-dressing and sex-changing phenomena, the text traces the phased femaling career path of the "male femaler" from "beginning femaling" through to "consolidating femaling".