Transvestites
Subtitle: The Erotic Drive To Cross Dress
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: December 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781591021681
Subjects: Transsexuals; Social Science; Sociology; Gender Studies
First sentence: Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the founders of what might be called sexology, along with Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and others.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Questions of right and wrong in conduct and analysis of the case histories. Introduction and cases (1-17) ; Analysis of the cases (complex of symptoms); title: pt. 2. Criticism (differential diagnosis). Transvestism and homosexuality ; Transvestism and monosexuality ; Transvestism and fetishism (explanation of Richard Wagner's Letters to a milliner) ; Transvestism and masochism ; Transvestism and the illusion of sexual metamorphosis ; Transvestism and hallucination ; Clothing as a form of expression of mental conditions ; The theory of intermediaries; title: pt. 3. Ethnology and history. Introduction ; Transvestism of children ; Transvestism and the law ; Transvestism and criminality ; The duration of cross-dressing ; The discovery of sex after death ; Suicide in the clothing of the other sex ; How transvestism is discovered ; Transvestism for reasons of normal sexual love and jealousy ; Criticism of the supposed motivations for cross-dressing ; Transvestism on the stage ; Comedy and transvestism ; Transvestites on thrones ; A few rare reasons for transvestism ; Transvestism and career choice ; Name-transvestism ; Women as soldiers ; Closing remarks