Discovering that your husband enjoys cross-dressing can evoke a range of emotions, from confusion and shock to curiosity and concern. This revelation might challenge your perceptions of gender roles ...

As a professor of sociology at San Francisco State University, Clare Sears is generally concerned with the present. But for her recent book, she reached back in history to help answer a modern ...

In the summer of 1897, police officers in California began searching for “a woman living in Stockton in the garb of a man.” For at least a month, detectives sought a “girl who roams in male attire” ...

Transvestic disorder occurs when an individual experiences recurrent, intense sexual arousal from cross-dressing, or dressing as the opposite gender, and in which that person's urge to do so causes ...

HUNTER — On a Saturday in 2004, antique dealer Robert Swope came across an old box of photographs at the Chelsea Flea Market in New York City. The well-preserved snapshots seemed to depict people who ...