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Transvestite

Transvestite

Bonnie & Vern Bullough, Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1993.
A comprehensive historical study of how cross-dressing is affected by the social construction of
gender and sex.

Vern Bullough, "Transvestites in the Middle Ages", American Journal of Sociology, vol. 79, 1974,
1381-94
Bullough covers female to male transvestite saints.

Elizabeth Castelli, "`I Will Make Mary Male': Pieties of the Body and Gender: Transformation of
Christian Women in Late Antiquity", Body Guards: The Cultural politics of Gender Ambiguity, ed. by
Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub, New York, Routledge, 1991, pp. 29-39.
Castelli provides a contextual reading of the early phenomenon of females becoming males in early
Christianity.

Rudolf M. Dekker & Lotte C. Van de Pol, Tradition of Female Tranvestism in Early Modern Europe,
New York, St. martin's Press, 1989.

Holly Devor, Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality, Bloomington, Indiana University
Press, 1989.
Devor examines the social construction of gender while studying women who are mistaken for men.

Richard F. Docter, Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theoy of Cross Gender Behavior,
New York, The Plenum Press, 1988.
Docter presents ten years of research on the issues of transvestism and transsexualism.

Julia Epstein & Kristina Straub (eds), Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, New
York, Routledge, 1991.
This anthology provides a wide-range of cross cultural studies in gender ambiguity.

Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety, New York, Routledge,
Chapman and Hall, 1992.
Excellent cultural study of cross-dressing, ranging from transvestism to transsexualism

Edward R. Gray & Scott Lee Thumma, "Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound! Southern
Evangelical Religion & Gay Drag in Atlanta," in A Rainbow of Religious Studies, ed. by J. Michael
Clark & Robert E. Goss, Las Colinas, Monument Press, 1996, pp. 33-54.
Gray and Thuma examine the phenomena of gospel drag as a gay indigenous religious expression.

Susanah Heschel, "Jesus as Theological transvestite," in Judaism Since Gender, ed. by Miriam
Peskowitz & Laura Levitt, New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. 188-199.
Heschel uses the notion of transvestism to explore Christian anti-semitism.

Dave King, The Transvestite and the Transsexual: Public Categories and Private Identities, Avebury,
1993.
King embarks upon a sociological analysis of the meanings attributed to transvestism and
transsexuality.

Eleanor McLaughlin, "Feminist Christologies: Re-Dressing the Tradition," in Reconstructing the
Christ Symbol, ed. by Maryanee Stevens, New York, Paulist Press, 1993, pp. 118-149.
Transvestites provide a critique of binary cultural categories by revealing the social construction of
gender categories. Cross-dressing becomes a means to preserve the embodiment of Christ but
moving beyond androcentricity.

Sabrina P. Ramet (ed), Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical
Perspectives, New York, Routledge, 1997.

Peggy Rudd, Crossdressing with Dignity: The Case for Transcending Gender Lines, Katy, TX, PM
Publishers, 1991.
From a survey of over 800 crossdressers, Rudd explores the issues of self-worth, respect, and
dignity in crossdressing.

Vanessa S, The Cross and the Crossdresser, King of Prussia, Creative Designs Services, 1993.
An articulation of a Christian crossdressing spirituality.

Annie Woodhouse, Fantastic Women: Sex, Gender and Transvestism, New Brunswick, Rutgers
University Press, 1989.
A feminist exploration of transvestism from the politics of gender.