Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Ciara Cremin
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Weight: 0.291kg
ISBN: 9780745337128
ISBN 10: 0745337120
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 20 August 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Ciara Cremin's Man-Made Woman is a feminist-Marxist-psychoanalytic analysis of being a crisscross-dresser and becoming-woman, set within the scathing critique of patriarchal-capitalism, and calls for the feminisation of men and socialist revolution. Despite some occasional edginess, it is a wonderful book, erudite, politically astute, brilliantly written, and at times wickedly funny. It's my favourite I've read for quite some time. -- Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the World
Cremin explores the relationship between theory and life with intelligence and wit. -- Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2016) Ciara Cremin's Man-Made Woman is a feminist-Marxist-psychoanalytic analysis of being a crisscross-dresser and becoming-woman, set within the scathing critique of patriarchal-capitalism, and calls for the feminisation of men and socialist revolution. Despite some occasional edginess, it is a wonderful book, erudite, politically astute, brilliantly written, and at times wickedly funny. It's my favourite I've read for quite some time. -- Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the World
'A feminist-Marxist-psychoanalytic analysis of being a crisscross-dresser and becoming-woman, set within the scathing critique of patriarchal-capitalism, and calls for the feminisation of men and socialist revolution. Despite some occasional edginess, it is a wonderful book, erudite, politically astute, brilliantly written, and at times wickedly funny. It's my favourite I've read for quite some time' -- Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the World 'Cremin explores the relationship between theory and life with intelligence and wit' -- Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2016)
Author Information
Ciara Cremin lectures in Sociology at the University of Auckland. She is a critical and cultural theorist whose work diagnoses the socio-economic, cultural, and subjective condition of late capitalism, and the author of several books, including Man-Made Woman and The Future is Feminine.
