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OverviewIn this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce into trans identities, culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans men's own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men. With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politics and community-building and provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his research. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aaron Devor , Jamison GreenPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.002kg ISBN: 9780253022868ISBN 10: 025302286 Pages: 740 Publication Date: 29 August 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword, 2016 / by Jamison Green Foreword, 1997 / by Jamison Green Acknowledgements New Introduction Original Introduction Part I: First Questions 1. Have Female-to-Male Transsexuals Always Existed? 2. Theories about Transsexualism Part II: Childhood Years 3. Finding Out about Gender: Theories of Childhood Gender Acquisition 4. Family Scenes 5. Who Would Want to Be a Girl?: The Women (and Girls) in Participants' Families 6. Men Rule: The Men (and Boys) in Participants' Families 7. Lessons Learned at Home: Summary of Family Relationships 8. Childhood Friends and Foes: Relationships with Non-Family Members Part III: Adolescence 9. Adolescence Is about Change 10. Crises at Puberty 11. Adolescent Friendships 12. Women Are Different: Relationships with Female Relatives 13. Access Denied, Restrictions Apply: Relationship with Male Relatives 14. Looking for Love, Groping for Identity: Adolescent Sexuality 15. Concluding Adolescence Part IV: Pre-Transition Years 16. Finding Identities Part V: Changing Over 17. A Long Road 18. Making the Decision 19. Making the Changes 20. Coming Out Stories 21. Are We There Yet? Part VI: Life after Transition 22. Nature Calls: Toilet Traumas and Medical Necessities 23. The Naked Truth about Sexuality 24. Visions of Genders 25. Lessons from the Journey Part: VII: Concluding 26. Conclusions and Questions Appendix Notes Bibliography Subject Index Participant IndexReviewsA landmark in the documentation of the personal lives of transsexual men. (Reviewing a previous edition) The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, reviewing a previous edition or volume This is the most comprehensive, professional book to date on FTM transsexualism and the many aspects of their life journeys. For its volume, this book is clearly understandable and reads without excessive use of scientific and academic rhetoric, thus making the book available to a broad audience. It is nonjudgmental, nonsensational, and provocative in its honesty, interpretation, and challenge to the future of societal opinion regarding FTM gender identity. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Journal of Sex Research Devor's exploration of the life experiences and transformations of female-to-male transsexuals richly describes a heretofore neglected topic. Devor's compelling description provides readers with insights that both contrast with and complement the existing literature on male-to-female transsexuals and other transgendered individuals. (Reviewing a previous edition) * Contemporary Sociology * A landmark in the documentation of the personal lives of transsexual men. (Reviewing a previous edition) * The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality * The book alternates specialized academic analysis with the individual studies, and should be of interest to both professionals who work with transsexuals and scholars interested in gender theory. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Choice Writing with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects' interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Jamison James Green This is the most comprehensive, professional book to date on FTM transsexualism and the many aspects of their life journeys. For its volume, this book is clearly understandable and reads without excessive use of scientific and academic rhetoric, thus making the book available to a broad audience. It is nonjudgmental, nonsensational, and provocative in its honesty, interpretation, and challenge to the future of societal opinion regarding FTM gender identity. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Journal of Sex Research Devor's exploration of the life experiences and transformations of female-to-male transsexuals richly describes a heretofore neglected topic. Devor's compelling description provides readers with insights that both contrast with and complement the existing literature on male-to-female transsexuals and other transgendered individuals. (Reviewing a previous edition) * Contemporary Sociology * A landmark in the documentation of the personal lives of transsexual men. (Reviewing a previous edition) * The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality * The book alternates specialized academic analysis with the individual studies, and should be of interest to both professionals who work with transsexuals and scholars interested in gender theory. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Choice Writing with an intelligent and accessible style, Dr. Devor balances exposition, analysis, and excerpts from her subjects' interviews to present a coherent picture of what social life is like for FTMs as they find their identity and learn about themselves. (Reviewing a previous edition) -- Jamison James Green In this newedition ofFTM, Devor, who so brilliantly previously captured the remarkable stories of transsexual men, continues to illuminate the need for insight into the transsexual man's life experience.Years ago, as a transsexual man searching for a reflection of my experienceandguidance on myimpending journey, Ifound what I was seekingin the pages ofthis book. In this day of increasing trans visibility there still remains a lack of trans male images, historiesandexperiencesleading to a continued lack of visibility and opportunities formentorship,which Dr. Jamison Green so eloquentlystatesin hispointed new foreword. Perhaps the timehas comefor a more equitable representation of transsexual men in the movement for trans justice. -Zander Keig, LCSW, featured in thedocumentaryZanderology; and co-editor ofLetters for My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in RetrospectandManning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves I often say that I decided to pursue a gender transition despite what I read in the books that were available to me-a handful of harsh, challenge-filled biographies about trailblazing transgender pioneers. With the notable exception, that is, of 'the trans man's bible'-Devor's big red hardcover that still sits, 20 years later, prominently on my bookshelf. FTM was hot off the presses right when I needed it most. Devor-gently, insightfully, starkly, and respectfully-put forth a beautifully written illustration of how life could be for me, made evident by those who bravely chose to share their lives for this book. I like to think this book provided me with the how-to for grabbing my amazing transgender life by the balls! -Aidan Key, Speaker, author, and founder of the National Gender Odyssey Conference Author InformationAaron Devor, PhD, FSSSS, FSTLHE, is the Founder and Academic Director of the world's largest Transgender Archives, the world's first Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a former Dean of Graduate Studies (2002-2012), and a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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