Download PDF by Ciara Cremin: Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing

By Ciara Cremin

ISBN-10: 0745337120

ISBN-13: 9780745337128

ISBN-10: 0745337139

ISBN-13: 9780745337135

On July twenty seventh, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a life of worry and repression and got here to paintings dressed as a girl referred to as Ciara. This ebook charts her own trip as a male-to-female cross-dresser within the ever-changing international of gender politics.

Interweaving the non-public and the political, via discussions of fetishism, aesthetics and pop culture, Man-Made lady explores gender, identification and delight in the course of the lenses of feminism, Marxism and psychoanalytic conception. Cremin’s anti-moralistic process dismantles the abjection linked to male-to-female go dressing, analyzing the explanations of its repression, and considers what it capacity to publicly materialise hope on her physique. Emancipatory and empowering: Cremin interrogates her, his and our dating to the gender binary.

Man-Made lady is an scan in idea and perform wherein either writer and reader are drawn finally right into a clash with our fabric, ideological and libidinal courting to patriarchal-capitalism.

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