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The first man-made man : the story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution
- Author
- Kennedy, Pagan, 1962-
- Title
- The first man-made man : the story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution / Pagan Kennedy.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Published
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
- Description
- 214 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- URL
- <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006018511-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006018511-d.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical referneces (p. [206]-209) and index.
- Contents
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- He proposes
- When there's no word for it
- Magic pills
- Sir Harold's scalpel
- With girls one has to be careful
- Orchid
- A passport into the world of women
- The third eye
- The calling card
- Becoming Jivaka
- A new age
- Rizong.
- Summary
- 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. Also includes information on Roberta Cowell, Christine Jorgensen, Institute for Sexual Science (Berlin), estrogen, testosterone, etc.
- Subject headings
- Dillon, Michael, 1915-1962. Cowell, Roberta, 1918-2011
- Kinsey subjects
- Biographies of transsexuals. Transsexualism history. Transsexualism. Sex reassignment.
- ISBN
- 1596910151 9781596910157