The first man-made man
the story of two sexes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution
by Pagan Kennedy
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In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexuals had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. Laura Dillon did all she could on her own: she cut her hair, dressed in men's clothing, bound her breasts with a belt. But in a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine. From upper-class orphan girl to Oxford lesbian, from post-surgery romance with Roberta Cowell (an early male-to-female) to self-imposed exile in India, Michael Dillon's incredible story reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.
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Gender Identity, Sex change, Genitalia, Transsexuals, Transvestism, Transsexualism, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Surgery, History, Biography, History, 20th Century, Female-to-male transsexuals, New York Times reviewed, Great britain, biography, Gender transition, Hormone therapy, Gender reassignment surgeryPlaces
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The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
March 4, 2008, Bloomsbury USA
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in English
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The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
March 6, 2007, Bloomsbury USA
Hardcover
in English
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The first man-made man: the story of two sexes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution
2006, Bloomsbury
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
1596910151 9781596910157
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