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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... masculine and using deliberately masculine body language . Almost inevitably these individuals become less rigid as they become more physically advanced in transition ( e.g. , as a man grows a beard , he no longer needs to wear a tie to ...
... masculine . I am half Persian and was quite hairy , having a more than partial yet not quite full beard when I entered my 20s . There is no history of sexual or physical abuse in my family . I had the benefit of a nor- mal childhood ...
... masculine . I didn't know how small a closet I was in until I got out and felt the deep physical and emotional ... masculinity simultaneously : to resume psychic repair of the preschool child while growing a teenage boy's body and ...