Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing - Couverture souple

Cremin, Ciara Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745337120 ISBN 13 : 9780745337128

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ciara aka Colin Cremin lectures in sociology at the University of Auckland. She is author of several books, including Totalled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism and Capitalism's New Clothes: Enterprise, Ethics and Enjoyment in Times of Crisis, both published with Pluto Press in 2015 and 2011 respectively.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745337120
• ISBN 13: 9780745337128
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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