Man-made woman the dialectics of cross-dressing / Ciara Cremin.
| Author/creator | Cremin, Ciara |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Pluto Press, 2017. |
| Description | vii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | What's in a dress? -- On the lavatory question -- The aesthetic of cross-dressing -- Everyone's a fetishist -- How popular culture made me (a woman) -- Full exposure. |
| Summary | On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara. This book charts her personal journey as a male-to-female cross-dresser in the ever-changing world of gender politics. Interweaving the personal and the political, through discussions of fetishism, aesthetics and popular culture, Man-Made Woman explores gender, identity and pleasure through the lenses of feminism, Marxism and psychoanalytic theory. Cremin's anti-moralistic approach dismantles the abjection associated with male-to-female cross dressing, examining the causes of its repression, and considers what it means to publicly materialise desire on her body. Emancipatory and empowering: Cremin interrogates her, his and our relationship to the gender binary. Man-Made Woman is an experiment in thought and practice through which both author and reader are drawn ultimately into a conflict with our material, ideological and libidinal relationship to patriarchal-capitalism |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-204) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021276915 |
| ISBN | 9780745337135 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780745337128 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (pdf ebook) |
| ISBN | (kindle ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |