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Summary: Statistic-laden study on FtMs; 1st one of its kind.
Review: It's a pretty good book if you're looking for a definitive volume which focuses mainly on female-to-male transsexuals. Though it's laborious reading at times with its mounds and mounds of technical statistics on Devor's research, it's still a must-own for any FtM or anyone who wants to know about FtMs. It's also very good reading for those who need to know the facts, e.g. family members who are dealing with a family member who is FtM.All in all, it's a very good (and long) read.
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Summary: Devor's Epic
Review: While Devor masterfully strives to be an ally to female men in the text, the disciplinary allegiances seem to encumber her work in ways that perhaps limit its value for transpeople. Released during a time when transgender people became ever the more critical and suspicious of psycho-medical non-transgender writings about them, the text was met with both ridicule from with the movement of transcholars and acclaim by sociological and psycho-medical academics. She makes a marvelous research contribution to studies of female men that is still a needful field of research. It is a marvelous resource text. That has likely been greatly underestimated due to political controversies that surround transgender studies. Key transgender scholars and activists who have been leaders in the female man transgender community are subjects of the research. In this regard, it can function as a historical text. It is scientific, statistical, theoretical, interesting, well done, and an amazing achievement. Female men could find educational support within. Scholars a rich resource for critical analysis.
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