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.