CHOICE MAGAZINE Outstanding Academic Title for 2007The field of
"transgender" and "transpositionality" has been carved out as a new
field of inquiry in the past decade, showing the fragmentation and
diversification of masculinities and feminities - along with the
error of any sharp polarisation. Dave King and Richard Ekins are
the leading world sociologists in this field and have mined it
richly since the 1970's. The book brings together a brilliant
synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they
have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich
but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the
art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further
during the twenty first century. This is a must read for all
interested in this new area of inquiry ' - "Ken Plummer, Professor
of Sociology, University of Essex. "Editor of" Sexualities." Author
of "Intimate Citizenship
An outstanding survey of the evolution of trans phenomena,
splendidly written, highly informative, scholarly at its best, yet
easy to read even for those neither trans nor sociologist. Drs
Ekins and King, experts in the field, unroll the panoramas of sex,
gender, and transgendering that have evloved during the last
decades. For everyone wanting to understand the interaction of
women and men and of those who cannot or will not identify with
either of these two cataegories, reading this book is a must, and a
real pleasure' - "Professor Friedmann Pfaefflin, University of
ULM
In a work destined to be a classic, Ekins and King offer a
comprehensive overview of the diversity of contemporary transgender
expression, along with an impressive conceptual framework for
making sense of that diversity. The abundant case vignettes bring
the authors' concepts to life and make the book a pleasure to read'
- "Dr Anne Lawrence, Clinical Sexologist in Private Practice,
Seattle
"""An outstanding survey of the evolution of trans phenomena,
splendidly written, highly informative, scholarly at its best, yet
easy to read even for those neither trans nor sociologist. Drs
Ekins and King, experts in the field, unroll the panoramas of sex,
gender, and transgendering that have evloved during the last
decades. For everyone wanting to understand the interaction of
women and men and of those who cannot or will not identify with
either of these two cataegories, reading this book is a must, and a
real pleasure' -
This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring
transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an
original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid
illustrative material.
Based on two decades of fieldwork, life history work,
qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several
thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the world, the
authors distinguish 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.
Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an
original and innovative conceptual framkework for understanding the
full range of the transgender experience.
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