Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
de Jonathan Ames
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Used - Like New
- ISBN 10
- 1400030145
- ISBN 13
- 9781400030149
- Librería
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. -- Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing At the time the passage above was written, people who felt trapped in the wrong gender automatically became case-studies. Today they become the men and women they always felt they were. Transsexuals test our notions of what it is to be male or female and, more provocatively, what it means to be one self as opposed to another. "Their stories," says Jonathan Ames, "hold the appeal of an adventurer's tale." In Sexual Metamorphosis, Ames presents the personal narratives of seventeen gender pioneers. Here is Christine Jorgensen, the first celebrity transsexual, greeting thousands of well-wishers from the stage of Madison Square Garden. Here is Caroline Cossey, former model and Bond (as in James) girl, being outed in the tabloid press. Here is novelist and English professor Jennifer Finney Boylan discussing her impending transformation with her heartbroken spouse and supportive yet confused colleagues. The result is a fascinating and compulsively readable book, filled with anguish, introspection and courage.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Librería
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- JH000066
- Título
- Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
- Autor
- Jonathan Ames
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1400030145
- ISBN 13
- 9781400030149
- Editorial
- Vintage
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- April 12, 2005
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