Transmen and FTMs

Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities

Bibliographic Data

ID11084203
AuthorsErin Calhoun Davis (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume30
Issue3
Pages256
Publication date2001-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofTransmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities, Jason Cromwell, 1999
VenueContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3089254
OpenAlexW1973073678
LanguageEN

Writing as an insider and an anthropologist, Jason Cromwell presents the first in-depth examination of what it means to be a female-bodied trans person. Through extensive participant observation and open-ended interviews, Transmen and allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female.In clarifying how trans men and FTMs define and validate their lives, as opposed to how society attempts to pigeonhole and belittle them, Cromwell shows how female-to-male trans people have been made virtually invisible by male-dominated discourses. He considers cross-cultural data on female gender diversity, historical evidence of female-bodied people who have lived as men, and contemporary trans men and FTMs. He also addresses how FTMs and trans men are working to challenge the mental illness model of transness as well as other misconceptions. Transmen and seeks to reframe the dialogue about gender identity and move away from regarding fixed gender categories as normative. By redefining gender diversity from a manifestation of pathology to a human condition, Transmen and promotes a fuller understanding of these individuals as persons in their own right

Human sexuality · Sociology · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

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