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an anthology of transsexual memoirs

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An edition of Sexual Metamorphosis (2005)

Sexual metamorphosis

an anthology of transsexual memoirs

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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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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
319

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Sexual Metamorphosis
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
April 12, 2005, Vintage
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2005, Vintage
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.76/8/0922, B
Library of Congress
HQ77.7 .S49 2005, HQ77.7.S49 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 319 p. :
Number of pages
319

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18394567M
Internet Archive
sexualmetamorpho0000unse
ISBN 10
1400030145
LCCN
2004057176
OCLC/WorldCat
56329420
Library Thing
298390
Goodreads
253849

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