FTM: female-to-male transsexuals in society
By: Holly Devor.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 695
Subjects: Female-to-male transsexuals -- Identity -- Case studies.; Transsexualism.; Gender identity.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: Holly Devor spent many years compiling indepth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgendered people, many of whom became her friends. She traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce in transsexual identity, culminating in gender and sex transformation. After an introduction which grounds the discussion in historical and theoretical contexts, the author takes a life course approach to understanding female-to-male transsexualism.

Using her subjects' own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescent, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify female-to-male transsexuals' images of themselves as people who should be men.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-684) and indexes.