Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing

Man-Made WomanThe Dialectics of Cross-DressingOn 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.Additional ISBNs9781786801425Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing 1st Edition is written by Ciara Cremin and published by Pluto Press. ISBNs for Man-Made Woman are 9781786801418, 1786801418 and the print ISBNs are 9780745337135, 0745337139. Additional ISBNs include 9781786801425.