Man-Made Woman: The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing

By Ciara Cremin

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745337120
• ISBN13: 9780745337128
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"