Böcker av Richard Ekins

This book is part jazz historiography, part autoethnography and part memoir. It sets forth a grounded theory of `authenticating¿ as a basic socio-political process, with reference to Richard Ekins¿ participation in the social worlds of New Orleans jazz, and his life as a social constructionist social scientist and cultural theorist.

A title that distinguishes a number of contemporary transgendering 'stories' to illustrate: the binary male/female divide; the interrelations betwen sex, sexuality and gender; the interrelations between the main sub-processes of transgendering. It develops a conceptual framkework for understanding the full range of the transgender experience.

Considers the treatment of gender blenders by the medical framework, in literature, the press and telephone sex lines and examines its prominence in recent contemporary cultural and queer theory.

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).