{"title":"Richards, Renée","authors":"C. Kraus, Renee Richards","doi":"10.4135/9781544393858.n246","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In her 1983 autobiography Second Serve, Richards writes of a childhood characterized by \"a provocative set of circumstances\": a controlling psychiatrist mother, disappointed that her first child \"Mike\" was a girl; a tomboyish sister who dressed her little brother in girls' panties and slips, forced his penis into painful inversions, and encouraged his exploration of her own anatomy; and the boy's secret cross-dressing and invention of an alter ego named Renee.","PeriodicalId":125524,"journal":{"name":"The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781544393858.n246","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
In her 1983 autobiography Second Serve, Richards writes of a childhood characterized by "a provocative set of circumstances": a controlling psychiatrist mother, disappointed that her first child "Mike" was a girl; a tomboyish sister who dressed her little brother in girls' panties and slips, forced his penis into painful inversions, and encouraged his exploration of her own anatomy; and the boy's secret cross-dressing and invention of an alter ego named Renee.