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Author: Peggy J. Rudd
Publisher: PM Publishers Incorporated
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780962676260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Crossdressing With Dignity is a book addressing the emotions that surface when men cross gender lines. This book represents the collective input from over 600 men and women who participated in a survey on crossdressing.
Author: Gregory G. Bolich
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-06-19
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0615156711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Virginia Erhardt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1317786491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Candid, first-hand accounts of couples who stay together despite highly emotional gender issues. Head Over Heels gives voice to thirty ordinary women who live extraordinary lives as partners to crossdressers, transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals. These unique women discuss, with honesty and great candor, how they first learned of their partners’ gender issues, how they’ve coped with the emotions that followed, how they’ve dealt with concerns about privacy/secrecy, and how they’ve handled disclosure to children, friends, and family members. Far from a collection of “happily ever after” stories, these narratives are filled with pain, courage, curiosity, and joy as each woman struggles to redefine a relationship that includes intimacy, social acceptance, dignity, and respect. The women whose stories are featured in Head Over Heels didn't know their partners were gender-variant when they first met. Some found out early on; others learned of their husbands' gender variance after decades of marriage. Some were told by their husbands—men they considered “regular guys;” others found out on their own, sometimes in shocking ways. Their stories represent a wide spectrum of women's life experiences with crossdressers, transgenderists, transsexuals who are nonoperative, pre-operative, and post-operative, families without children, families with children at home, and families with children who have left home. But these women share one thing in common: each has decided to stay in her relationship, exploring her new life with an open, yet cautious, heart. Some of the voices heard in Head Over Heels: “While putting my clothes on, I found a sales receipt on the bureau from K-Mart for shoes, a bra, and stockings. My immediate thought was that my husband had a girlfriend.” “He dressed for me one night and it was the worst experience of both our lives. I was shocked and he knew it and that hurt him.” “My siblings had been aware of Trish’s transsexualism for several years when she went full-time. They have told me that while I will always be welcome in their homes, Trish is not.” “My husband may think differently, but I do have a sexual identity. Actually, I’m real clear about it—I am a woman and he is a man. I do not allow him to crossdress in the bedroom. I married a man; therefore, I will sleep with a man.” Head Over Heels also includes historical and current information about resources and support for wives of gender-variant people, and a substantive introduction that includes basic information about sexual and gender identity and related issues.
Author: Ph. D. G. G. Bolich
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 0615253563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Richard J. Novic M.D.
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005-04-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0595763766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alice in Genderland is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a caring doctor at the office and a loving husband and father at home. But one night a week, he is Alice, a brave trans woman about town, shopping, dining, dancing, and more. In contrast to the life he leads today, Rick Novic suffered since his sporty, nerdy boyhood with a secret, a desire he was in no way equipped to handle, but one that eventually burst through his denial, a few months before his wedding day. Just once, he felt, while he still could, he had to know how it felt to be a woman. Like Alice in Wonderland, his curiosity led him to fall headlong down a rabbit hole, through desperate straits, mind-opening surprises, heart-rending changes, gritty sex, and boundless love. By the time he was back on his feet, he was a different person, living a lifestyle he hadn’t known existed. Anyone who has struggled to figure out who they are and how they want to live will surely appreciate this informative and engaging life story. Praise for Alice in Genderland “Few know the transgender scene like GIRL TALK magazine’s Alice Novic. This exciting new memoir by her male alter ego takes us along with him and the people he loves, as he encounters and explores each twist and turn around him and within him. As much Lewis and Clark as it is Lewis Carroll, Alice in Genderland blazes a new trail in the world of crossdressing.” —Linda Jensen, contributing writer, Transgender Forum “Alice bravely explores the limits of gender, sexuality, and relationships—a sexy, poignant, and often hilarious memoir of transgenderism.” —Vernon A. Rosario, M.D., author of The Erotic Imagination, clinical faculty, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute “More provocative than soothing, Alice in Genderland is fascinating and well worth reading.” —Vern L. Bullough, Ph.D., author of Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender, past president of the Society of the Scientific Study of Sex
Author: Gregory G. Bolich
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0615200559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Transgender Realities is a brief introduction to gender variant people and to the judgments made about them. The volume begins with a consideration of what gender is and does, and how this relates to all of us. Turning to specific consideration of transgender people, the book offers what research reveals about them, but also what they report about themselves. The causes of transgender, how society responds to it, and how partners, family and friends relate to a transgender person are only a few of the matters discussed. Also included is a survey of transgender across history and around the world, how transgender interacts with religion, and the changing way mental health professionals are working with transgender people. This volume is a "must have" introduction.
Author: Genny Beemyn
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-11-29
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0231512619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S. on gender development and identity-making among transsexual women, transsexual men, crossdressers, and genderqueer individuals. With nearly 3,500 participants, the survey is remarkably diverse, and with more than 400 follow-up interviews, the data offers limitless opportunities for research and interpretation. Beemyn and Rankin track the formation of gender identity across individuals and groups, beginning in childhood and marking the "touchstones" that led participants to identify as transgender. They explore when and how participants noted a feeling of difference because of their gender, the issues that caused them to feel uncertain about their gender identities, the factors that encouraged them to embrace a transgender identity, and the steps they have taken to meet other transgender individuals. Beemyn and Rankin's findings expose the kinds of discrimination and harassment experienced by participants in the U.S. and the psychological toll of living in secrecy and fear. They discover that despite increasing recognition by the public of transgender individuals and a growing rights movement, these populations continue to face bias, violence, and social and economic disenfranchisement. Grounded in empirical data yet rich with human testimony, The Lives of Transgender People adds uncommon depth to the literature on this subject and introduces fresh pathways for future research.
Author: Dana Jennett Bevan Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-11-14
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1440845255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written for general audiences, this unprecedented book comprehensively answers many questions about being transgender with current experiential and scientific information, including the evidence for a biological transgender predisposition. With transgender people visibly achieving fame in entertainment, the literary world, and other arenas, increasing numbers of transgender people are choosing to publicly announce that they are transgender. All of this has brought transgender people and the associated issues of being transgender into mainstream discourse. The demand for fact-based, scientific information on being transgender has never been higher. Written by a transgender person who is also a physiological psychologist, this book is the first for general readers that explains what is known about transgender causation, what life as a transgendered individual is like, and the science involved in living a transgender life. This book serves to improve understanding of being transgender among general audiences—including transgender readers—by describing the science and experience of being transgender. It supplies an enlightening understanding of what if feels like to be transgender, when it starts, the many paths for living a transgender life, and methods to face challenges such as bullying and rejection. It provides a worldview that transgender people are neither broken nor diseased, but rather that they exhibit transgender behavior because of a biological predisposition for which there is solid scientific evidence.
Author: Angelica Marie Gossett
Publisher: Angelica Marie Gossett
Published: 2019-09-30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It was shortly after they were married. Diane began to suspect that her husband Stephen was a crossdresser who was wearing her clothes. Well, if he had a secret, he would no doubt deny it. She decided to document his secret escapades first. If he wanted to dress as a girl, he should have sex as a girl. But given his being secretly recorded in her pretty pink bridal nightgown, it gave Diane an idea. Her husband had some traditional ideas. So his 1st time being made to have sex as a girl should be special. Special occasions should have a special dress. What better than a long formal feminine bridal gown for her husband to wear before his 1st time? So Diane developed an elaborate plan to force feminize her husband, publically expose him dressed as a girl, and then prepare him for his bridal gown. Warning: Don't let your wife or girlfriend learn of Diane's plan because it was perfect. Stephen truly had no option but to be dressed in public as a girl to begin the day, You also will wind up having no choice either if anybody does to you what Diane did to Stephen. Brides need to have their makeup done. They need to have help dressing in their bridal gown. They need to have bridesmaid and maids of honor. They need to have their pictures taken. They need to have a new name. All of this prior to the formal presentation and introduction to their spouse. Diane was going to make sure Stephen got the full complete total treatment. Then, of course, the bridal night. The "mythical" first time she has sex. Well, Stephen was going to get the full treatment here also. Punishment enema, plus punishment oral sex, punishment anal sex, forced consumption, bondage, whips, and cock torture. But the psychological punishment would be equally as bad with suggestions and elements of cuckolding and forced-bi to demean and shame her husband. As the evening progressed, Diane and her family learned even more of Stephen's secrets. Diane already had a plan to make Stephen's mother an unwilling participant in the bridal weekend. But, now, those plans would change. His mother would have a much more expanded and permanent role. Stephen's crossdressing was always a family affair from the very beginning. Now, it would be a much larger family affair. It was time to complete what had been started years before he met Diane. Of course, your author on her cover image is wearing a dress that matches the story.
Author: Simone Chess
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1317360869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
