Ciara Cremin

Man-Made Woman (eBook, ePUB)

The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786801425
• Artikelnr.: 49259410

Autorenporträt

Ciara aka Colin Cremin is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Auckland. She is author of several books, including Man-Made Woman (Pluto, 2017), Totalled (Pluto, 2015) and Capitalism's New Clothes (Pluto, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. What's In A Dress?
2. On The Lavatory Question
3. The Aesthetic of Cross-Dressing
4. Everyone's a Fetishist
5. How Popular Culture Made Me (a Woman)
6. Full Exposure
Notes
Bibliography
Index