FTM : female-to-male transsexuals in society / Holly Devor.

  • Devor, Aaron H., 1951-
Date:
[1997], ©1997
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Female-to-male transsexuals in society

Description

Holly Devor spent many years compiling indepth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgendered people, many of whom became her friends. She traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce in transsexual identity, culminating in gender and sex transformation. After an introduction which grounds the discussion in historical and theoretical contexts, the author takes a life course approach to understanding female-to-male transsexualism. Using her subjects' own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescent, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify female-to-male transsexuals' images of themselves as people who should be men.

Publication/Creation

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1997], ©1997.

Physical description

xxviii, 695 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Contributors

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Dr Dave King.

Contents

Foreword / Jamison "James" Green -- 1. Have Female-to-Male Transsexuals Always Existed? -- 2. Theories about Transsexualism -- 3. Finding Out about Gender: Theories of Childhood Gender Acquisition -- 4. Family Scenes -- 5. Who Would Want to Be a Girl?: The Women (and Girls) in Participants' Families -- 6. Men Rule: The Men (and Boys) in Participants' Families -- 7. Lessons Learned at Home: Summary of Family Relationships -- 8. Childhood Friends and Foes: Relationships with Non-Family Members -- 9. Adolescence Is about Change -- 10. Crises at Puberty -- 11. Adolescent Friendships -- 12. Women Are Different: Relationships with Female Relatives -- 13. Access Denied, Restrictions Apply: Relationships with Male Relatives -- 14. Looking for Love, Groping for Identity: Adolescent Sexuality -- 15. Concluding Adolescence -- 16. Finding Identities -- 17. A Long Road -- 18. Making the Decision -- 19. Making the Changes -- 20. Coming Out Stories -- 21. Are We There Yet? -- 22. Nature's Calls: Toilet Traumas and Medical Necessities -- 23. The Naked Truth about Sexuality -- 24. Visions of Genders -- 25. Lessons from the Journey -- 26. Conclusions and Questions.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-684) and indexes.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    HQ77.9 1997D51f
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0253336317
  • 9780253336316