The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals"The Phallus Palace "is a bold approach to the subject of female to male transexuals (FTMs). Personal testaments from FTMs and contributions from a host of others place the subject of transsexualism into a historical, medical, psychological and cultural context. Captivating photographs guide the reader from the FTMs female personae, through surgical operations, to portraits of the men whose self and public identities are finally revealed as one. Dean Kotula has worked as a documentary photographer for twenty years. Dean changed his sex from female to male under the scrutinizing eyes of 2,000 predominantly male shipyard workers while working as a machinist. The ensuing ordeal prompted him to create this book A native Minnesotan, Dean now resides in Massachusetts where he co-owns an antique business. |
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... dress in stan- dard women's clothing ; thus they tend to gravitate toward lower - paying jobs where dress code requirements are not restrictively specified . The majority of FTMs as teenagers and young adults lack the autonomy and funds ...
... dress that gave her a clue that something wasn't quite the same with her 2 - year - old as with her others . She went through the trouble to find two identical dresses - one for me and one for my sister . My sister loved hers . I didn't ...
... dress that day . It never crossed anyone's mind that I might have once been female . It was clear that their sudden ... dresses but became something more universal , almost more natural . Lou Sullivan died of HIV - related complications ...