Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing

Book by Richard Ekins, Dave King; Routledge, 1996

Book Excerpt (p. iii)


BLENDING GENDERS

Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing

Edited by

Richard Ekins and Dave King

London and New York

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THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dwight B. Billings is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is a specialist in the critical theory tradition in sociology and engages in historical and comparative studies of social inequality in the United States.

Neil Buhrich is Clinical Director of the Inner City Mental Health Service, Sydney and Director of HIV Psychiatry at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He has a conjoint appointment as Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. He has published widely in the scientific literature on aspects of gender identity.

Richard Ekins is Director of the Trans-Gender Archive and Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He has published widely on various aspects of transgender and is co-author of Centres and Peripheries of Psychoanalysis (1994). His book Male Femaling is to be published by Routledge.

Peter Farrer, formerly an inspector of taxes, is currently a freelance writer and publisher. He has worked on aspects of transgender for over forty years. His books include Men in Petticoats (1987), In Female Disguise (1992) and Borrowed Plumes (1994).

Phaedra Kelly is the alternate ...


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