Gender blending / edited by Bonnie Bullough, Vern Bullough & James Elias.

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1997.

524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Copy 1. Donor: Dr Dave King.

Transforming Transvestism and Transsexualism: Polarity, Politics, and Gender / Anne Bolin -- Transgender: Some Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Contemporary Models and Methods of Coping and Treatment / Dallas Denny -- Transgender Coming Out: Implications for the Clinical Management of Gender Dysphoria / Walter O. Bockting -- The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression / Holly Boswell -- Beyond Appearances: Gendered Rationality and the Transgendered / Michael A. Gilbert -- Narrating Ourselves: Duped or Duplicitous? / Karen Nakamura -- More Than Manly Women: How Female Transsexuals Reject Lesbian Identities / Holly Devor -- Self-Testing: A Check on Sexual Identity and Other Levels of Sexuality / Milton Diamond -- Multiple Personality Order: A Response to Trauma and the Development of the Cross-Gender Experience / William A. Henkin -- Dissociation as a Defense against Ego-Dystonic Transsexualism / David Seil -- Feminist and Lesbian Opinions about Transsexuals / Monica Kendel, Holly Devor and Nancy Strapko -- Development of the Cross-Gender Lifestyle: Comparisons of Cross-Gendered Men with Heterosexual Controls / Mary Hogan-Finlay, Nicholas P. Spanos and Bill Jones -- Men Who Cross-Dress: A Survey / Bonnie Bullough and Vern Bullough -- Culturally Universal Aspects of Male Homosexual Transvestites and Transsexuals / Frederick L. Whitam -- The Transvestite's Lover: Identity and Behavior / Jacobo Schifter and Johnny Madrigal -- The Gender Heresy of Akhenaten / Winnie Brant -- The Gynemimetic Shaman: Evolutionary Origins of Male Sexual Inversion and Associated Talent / William Dragoin -- The Balkan Sworn Virgin: A Traditional European Transperson / Mildred Dickemann -- Wagner's "Letters to a Seamstress": Cross-Dressing, Egoism, and Polymorphous Perversity / Michael Saffle -- A Historical Perspective of Christine Jorgensen and the Development of an Identity / Linda Heidenreich -- Saving Their Own Selves; Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing as a Means of Survival for Married Women in Two English Plays / Keith Dorwick -- "This Strange Way of Meeting": Theatricality and the New Woman in Hardy's The Return of the Native / Lisa Nakamura -- The Boys Don't Count: Or Why Won't Shakespeare Put His Men in Dresses? / Lynn M. Thompson -- "Just Man Enough to Play the Boy": Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Mid-Victorian England / Ellen Bayuk Rosenbaum -- The Changing Face of the Transgender Community / Mariette Pathy Allen -- Results of a Questionnaire on the Standards of Care of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association / Dallas Denny and Jan Roberts -- Revision of the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care in Progress / Friedemann Pfafflin -- SRS Tomorrow: The Physical Continuum / Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni -- Sex Reassignment Surgery in Male-to-Female Transsexuals: Client Satisfaction in Relation to Selection Criteria / Janis R. Walworth -- Current State of Transsexual Surgery: A Brief Overview / Stanley H. Biber -- Transsexualism in China in 1995 / Xia Zhaoji and Wang Chuanmin -- Patterns in and Treatments for Gender Dysphoria / Gretchen Finke and Roger Northway -- The Hotline Call, or "How to Do a Year's Psychotherapy in Thirty Minutes or Less" / Yvonne Cook-Riley -- Religion and Cross-Gender Behavior: Wellspring of Hope or Swamp of Despair? / Kathryn J. Helms -- The Use of Dance/Movement in the Adjustment to a New Gender Role / Jayne Thomas and Annette Cardona -- Gender Attitude Reassessment Program (GARP) / Ariadne Kane -- Law and Transsexualism / Louis H. Swartz -- Legislating for Transsexual Rights: A Prescriptive Form / Stephen Whittle -- Cross-Dressing in the United Kingdom: The Law / Richard Green -- Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health Care / Lisa Middleton -- Seventy Years in the Trenches of the Gender Wars / Virginia Prince -- Fighting the Battles / Michele Kammerer -- Metamorphosis: Man in the Making (A Personal and Political Perspective) / Rupert Raj -- The Inner Dimensions of Gender Transformation / Lee Etscovitz -- Transsexuality and Religion: A Personal Journey / Karen F. Kroll -- A Legal Path of Androgyny / Lynn Edward Harris -- What Is a Transgenderist? / Kymberleigh Richards -- App. Standards of Care.

Includes bibliographical references.