Living with Crossdressing

Living with Crossdressing
Author: Savannah Hauk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991470235

A look into the minds of non-transitioning crossdressers and the women who love them

Crossdressing in Context, Vol. 1 Dress & Gender

Crossdressing in Context, Vol. 1 Dress & Gender
Author: Gregory G. Bolich
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-04-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0615156339

The first in a five volume set, this book reestablishes dress as a foundational context for crossdressing. This major study demonstrates the interplay between sex, gender, and clothes, especially as these relate to transgender behaviors, of which crossdressing is the best-known.

Arresting Dress

Arresting Dress
Author: Clare Sears
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2015-02-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822376199

In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century’s end. Over forty U.S. cities passed similar laws during this time, yet little is known about their emergence, operations, or effects. Grounded in a wealth of archival material, Arresting Dress traces the career of anti-cross-dressing laws from municipal courtrooms and codebooks to newspaper scandals, vaudevillian theater, freak-show performances, and commercial “slumming tours.” It shows that the law did not simply police normative gender but actively produced it by creating new definitions of gender normality and abnormality. It also tells the story of the tenacity of those who defied the law, spoke out when sentenced, and articulated different gender possibilities.

Why Not?

Why Not?
Author: Barbara Deloto
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781727273465

Male feminization for fun and growth? Why not? It's a question that critical thinkers ask about many subjects. Everyday there's someone who sees something and instead of saying no they ask, why not? What if the Wright brothers agreed with everyone that man can't fly? What if Henry Ford believed like everyone else that there could be no mass production? What if Galileo gave up on the idea that the world is round and not flat like the Church wanted him to? If something can be beneficial for you or others, but the accepted societal view says it's wrong, does that really make it wrong? Male-to-female crossdressing is one of those things. Sometimes viewed as an unmanly due to societal paradigms and beliefs and called a deviant behavior, it's carried a stigma with it. Does that mean it shouldn't be done? Women are allowed to cross-dress; it has become commonplace for women to wear men's styles of clothing, yet men are forced to stay in men's clothes. Dresses, skirts, stockings and all the feminine accoutrements have fallen to the wayside for most women today, and it's perfectly acceptable for them to wear flannel shirts with jeans, or sweatpants with sneakers or flat shoes. Why not? Why shouldn't a male be offered the same flexibility? Until the time comes when open-mindedness is more prevalent, and paradigms and beliefs are changed, it's still possible to do in secret or with likeminded people and groups, and the benefits are just as great. To balance the individual's masculine and feminine energies and activate the rise on Maslow's hierarchy of needs is not a trivial thing, and that is just one of many benefits it brings. If you, a person close to you, a spouse or partner, or a friend of yours is involved in male-to-female crossdressing, has an interest in it, or is bored and wants to try something new and exciting, then drop the veil of illusions by creating a new feminine illusion and thrive. Read on and see what benefits can follow in this thoughtful short read that just might improve your or someone else's life-or at least help you understand it better. Look inside now.

Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing

Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing
Author: Courtney Bailey Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1000735583

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance practices for male-to-female crossdressing. This book argues for a reading of the representation of female characters on the English Renaissance stage that not only suggests categorizing crossdressing along a spectrum of theatrical artifice, but also explores how this range of artifice enriches our understanding of the plays. The scholarship surrounding cross-dressing rarely makes this distinction, since in our study of early modern plays we tend to accept as a matter of course that all crossdressing was essentially the same. The basis of Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing is that it was not.

Crossdressing in Context, Vol. 4 Transgender & Religion

Crossdressing in Context, Vol. 4 Transgender & Religion
Author: Ph. D. G. G. Bolich
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0615253563

Much debate exists over the proper religious perspective on transgender realities and people. This volume examines transgender in the major world religions. Extensive consideration is given to Christianity, including the arguments presented both against transgender behaviors and by supporters of transgender people. Religions covered include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and indigenous religions such as Native American religions of the United States.

Crossdressing in Context, Vol. 2: Today's Transgender Realities

Crossdressing in Context, Vol. 2: Today's Transgender Realities
Author: Gregory G. Bolich
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2007-06-19
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0615156711

The second volume in a 5 volume set, The Context of Transgender Realities examines crossdressing as it is experienced by crossdressers and as it is interpreted by others, including researchers from a number of different disciplines. Organized as answers to frequently asked questions, the text covers everything from what motivates crossdressing, to when it begins, how it proceeds, and what it means.

Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature

Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature
Author: Simone Chess
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317360850

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.

Transgender History & Geography: Crossdressing in Context

Transgender History & Geography: Crossdressing in Context
Author: Bolich
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2007-09-28
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0615167667

The third in a landmark five volume study of transgender realities, with a focus on crossdressing, this fascinating volume offers a tour through history and around the world. Within these pages are found the most famous crossdressers of history and information as to what it means to be a transgender person in the various countries of the world today.

Crossdressing. Transvestite. Boy Sidekick. and Totally Fabulous Man

Crossdressing. Transvestite. Boy Sidekick. and Totally Fabulous Man
Author: Diana Wood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-03-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508772101

A tale of forbidden love and lies, as Timmy is caught dressing up by Totally Fabulous Man and has some explaining to do. This is a Full color story. A beautifully illustrated comic book. For adults only. Contains scenes of spanking, boys dressing as girls and more. Also contains Timmy "paper Dolls" (you may cut them out) as Timmy dresses up like a gorgeous girl in some fabulous outfits. Exclusive.