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Crossdressing in Context, vol. 3: Transgender History & Geography documents the behavior of crossdressing across history and around the world. Crossdressing is known to date back at least 15 centuries before Christ. It is found in societies both East and West. Explore this fascinating reality through the lives of famous people and see how other people view it in the third volume of this landmark five volume set.

This abridged and revised edition of an earlier work explores ancient Greek philosophy to uncover its contribution to our present understanding of knowledge, of belief, and of the relationship between them. The volume focuses on the key question of whether belief ever can be knowledge. Aimed at the nonexpert, the philosophies of Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics are all set out with the aid of illustr...

Conversing on Gender is, as its subtitle indicates, a primer for entering the broad conversation on gender that can be found both inside and outside of academic circles. The book considers the relation of gender to sex and sexuality, reviews prominent theories of gender, and covers basic gender issues.

The third in a landmark five volume study of transgender realities, with a focus on crossdressing, this fascinating volume offers a tour through history and around the world. Within these pages are found the most famous crossdressers of history and information as to what it means to be a transgender person in the various countries of the world today.

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 ...

Conversing on Gender is, as its subtitle indicates, a primer for entering the broad conversation on gender that can be found both inside and outside of academic circles. The book considers the relation of gender to sex and sexuality, reviews prominent theories of gender, and covers basic gender issues.

After the Rain, the Sun Shines Brighter. But you have to be able to pry open your eyes and look to the skies. The revised edition of this short, practical self-help manual offers 10 steps for recovery from life's setbacks and progress toward greater life success. Filled with sound counsel and helpful exercises that can be completed inside the books own pages, this is the perfect gift to yourself or anyone else who right now is wet all over fro...

The second in a landmark five volume set by gender scholar G. G. Bolich, this volume looks at the lives of people called "transgender." These people are allowed to speak for themselves in the various studies conducted with them by many scholars over the last few decades. What the research reveals provides a fascinating and compelling look at a group of people increasingly visible in our society.

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.

The first in a five volume set, this book reestablishes dress as a foundational context for crossdressing. This major study demonstrates the interplay between sex, gender, and clothes, especially as these relate to transgender behaviors, of which crossdressing is the best-known.

Who doesn't know the story of Dorothy Gale of Kansas? Torn from bleak grays of Kansas by a cyclone, she ends up in the technicolored Oz. Her story offers a powerful model to those caught in another kind of cyclone, the terror of sexual abuse. Just as Dorothy found her way home, so can those of us displaced by abuse. We can walk with Dorothy, learn from here, and brick by brick find our own way home.

The first in a five volume set, this book reestablishes dress as a foundational context for crossdressing. This major study demonstrates the interplay between sex, gender, and clothes, especially as these relate to transgender behaviors, of which crossdressing is the best-known.

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 f...