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Survey of various aspects of transvestism in the light of our present knowledge.
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This article is published in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.The article was published on 1959-01-01. It has received 77 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transvestism.read more
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The classification and labeling of nonhomosexual gender dysphorias
TL;DR: It is concluded that the main varieties of nonhomosexual gender dysphoria are more similar to each other than any of them is to the homosexual type.
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Heterosexual and homosexual gender dysphoria
TL;DR: Why more males than females complain of dissatisfaction with their anatomical sex (gender dysphoria) is investigated, and it is suggested that males are differentially susceptible to one of the predisposing conditions, namely, fetishistic transvestism.
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Transvestism and fetishism: clinical and psychological changes during faradic aversion
Isaac Marks,Michael Gelder +1 more
TL;DR: Faradic aversion produced marked improvement in transvestism and fetishism over the short period studied, and can be a useful tool of clinical investigation which allows an experimental approach to the psychopathology of sexual deviation.
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The socio-medical construction of transsexualism: an interpretation and critique*
Dwight B. Billings,Thomas Urban +1 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that transexualism is a socially constructed reality which only exists in and through medical practice, and that sex-change surgery reflects and extends late-capitalist logics of reification and commodification, while simultaneously reaffirming traditional male and female gender roles.
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Transvestites and Transsexuals: Toward a Theory of Cross-Gender Behavior
TL;DR: A review of the literature on Transvestism and Transsexualism can be found in this paper, where four thematic constructions of transvestism are discussed: self and identity, self-as-a-theory, identity and gender identity, and cross-gender identity.