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Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls

Veronica Vera

1997, Main Street Books

190 Pages

From the Cover

"For every woman who burned her bra, there is a man ready to wear one," says Veronica Vera, who founded Miss Vera's Finished School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls in 1992 as a resource for the estimated 3 to 5 percent of the adult male population who feel the need, at least occasionally, to dress in women's clothing.  (Judging from calls to her academy, however Miss Vera would say that figure is low.)

From the pink palace of the academy's intimate Manhattan campus, Miss Vera and her faculty have transformed hundreds of students eager to explore their Venus Envy through expert instruction in the arts of making up, dressing up, and behaving like a lady.

With sparkling wit, and tasteful decorum that would make Amy Vanderbilt proud, Miss V enlightens us on topics including body hair (never attempt to wax yourself), body building (the truth about falsies), and creating a herstory (finding the femmeself within), as well as walking in high heels (the course that has real girls clamoring to enroll) and taking that biggest step of all - going out in the real world, all dressed up.  Filled with photographs, and with dozens of real-life stories from students and alumnae, the book also includes a history of how the academy came to be, and is peppered with keen insights that amount to nothing less than a gender manifesto for the twenty-first century.

"As we boldly step toward the new millennium, many more of us will be doing it in high heels," declares Veronica Vera.  Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls is a high heeled step in a new direction, certain to delight and educate the curious as well as the converted.

Table of Contents

  1. Think Pink
  2. Venus Envy
  3. The Student Body
  4. Herstory
  5. Hair Dressing
  6. Bodybuilding
  7. Makeup Test
  8. Fashion Assignment
  9. Best High Heel Forward
  10. Home Ec
  11. Girl Talk
  12. Field Trips
  13. Etiquette for Macho Girls
  14. Sex Education
  15. Coming Out

Readers' Comments

 

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Nancy Nangeroni  nancy@gendertalk.com

This book was so much fun, it made me want to go back to being a crossdresser!

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micaela 

wonderfull