"A major contribution to the understanding of gender." -- AnneBolin
"Its readable style achieves a unique balance of thepersonal with scientific rigor." -- ContemporarySociology
"Holly Devor's Gender Blending is a pathfindingstudy that creates a new frontier in sex and gender research." -- Journal ofthe History of Sexuality
..". a fascinating study... "-- Choice
Fifteen women who have to varying degrees rejectedtraditional femininity, but not their femaleness, discuss their lives with Devor.These women, sometimes mistaken for men, choose to minimize their femalevulnerability in a patriarchal world by minimizing their femininity.