| Summary: | Investigates the phenomenon of people carrying themselves off in public as the other gender. King (sociology and social work, U. of Liverpool) provides a sociological perspective that, while complementing the many medical and psychological studies of the topic, also brings into question not only the findings of those studies, but also the conduct of the studies themselves. He analyzes the various meanings imparted to transvestitism and transsexuality in several different arenas: medicine, the media, the gay subculture, and private life. Acidic paper. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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