Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing

On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara. This book charts her personal journey as a male-to-female cross-dresser in the ever-changing world of gender politics. Interweaving the personal and the political, through discussions of fetishism, aesthetics and popular culture, Man-Made Woman explores gender, identity and pleasure through the lenses of feminism, Marxism and psychoanalytic theory. Cremin's anti-moralistic approach dismantles the abjection associated with male-to-female cross dressing, examining the causes of its repression, and considers what it means to publicly materialise desire on her body. Emancipatory and empowering: Cremin interrogates her, his and our relationship to the gender binary. Man-Made Woman is an experiment in thought and practice through which both author and reader are drawn ultimately into a conflict with our material, ideological and libidinal relationship to patriarchal-capitalism.

Author: Ciara Cremin
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 08/20/2017
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780745337128

About the Author
Ciara Cremin is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Auckland. She is author of Totalled and Capitalism's New Clothes, both published by Pluto Press.