Gender Blending: Transvestism (Cross-Dressing), Gender Heresy, Androgyny, Religion & the Cross- Dresser, Transgender Healthcare, Free Expression, Sex Change Surgery / Edition 1

by Bonnie Bullough, Vern L. Bullough, James Elias

Overview

From cross-dressing to altering one's sex by undergoing hormone therapy and radical surgery, "gender blending" has reached new levels of public awareness. Gender Blending is an up-to-date account of this compelling trend that is rapidly altering the frontiers of human sexuality. The changes occurring in this area of lifestyle research are vast and rapid. This book looks at biological, sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological, religious, and other aspects of gender blending to find common ground among researchers in all areas. By representing a unique collaboration of experts and those involved in gender blending, this groundbreaking work could spell the beginning of a sexual renaissance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573921244
Publisher:	Prometheus Books
Publication date:	03/01/1997
Series:	New Concepts in Sexuality
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	524
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.33(d)

About the Author

Bonnie Bullough, RN, PhD (1927 - 1996) was a professor of nursing at the University of Southern California, a highly regarded sexologist, and a cofounder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She helped to develop the first Nurse Practitioner Program in California at UCLA in 1968. Throughout her career, she edited or wrote thirty books as well as 112 published articles. She was the winner of the Alfred C. Kinsey Award among other awards and honors.


Vern L. Bullough, PhD, DSci, RN, the author or editor of over fifty books and an internationally recognized sexologist, was the founding director of The Center for Sex Research at California State University, Northridge (CSUN); professor emeritus of the History Department at CSUN; and formerly dean of social and behavioral sciences and a distinguished professor at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. After retiring, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Southern California from 1993 to 2003.

James E. Elias, PhD, now retired, taught sex therapy courses and was the director of the Center for Sex Research at California State University, Northridge.

Editorial Reviews

A compendium of papers presented at a recent symposium sponsored by California State University's Center for Sex Research, this open-minded exploration of cross-dressing, transsexualism and cross-gender behavior bills itself as "a scholarly version of Stonewall." Combining research reports, case histories, personal narratives and manifestos, this eye-opening survey searchingly delves into trans-gender phenomena across centuries and cultures, from Joan of Arc to Native American peoples to present-day Brazil, Indonesia, Costa Rica and the U.S. The academic authors provide unusually thorough coverage of coming out, counseling, health care, the legal system, political activism and how the world's religions regard cross-gender behavior. Certain essays, however, border on the nonsensical; for instance, one academic argues that Wagner's fondness for fabrics, frills and dressing gowns is indicative of the androgyny permeating his music, while another writer concludes, on the basis of extremely slender archeological evidence, that pharaoh Akhenaten's alleged trans-gender identity led him to formulate revolutionary monotheism. Sexologist Vern Bullough is visiting professor at the University of Southern California, where the late Bonnie Bullough was a professor of nursing; Elias teaches sex therapy at California State. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

A diverse collection of some 50 papers discussing cross-gender behavior, from cross-dressing to altering one's sex through hormones and surgery. Topics range from the emergence of the transgender phenomenon to literary treatments of cross- dressing and legal issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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