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Sto caricando le informazioni... The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolutiondi Pagan Kennedy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Imperfect writing about trans people, but not awful either. Book was neither heavy nor too lightweight---medium-weight? Very interesting stuff about the history of plastic surgery in all its forms. ( ) This book was really interesting. Throughout I was struck with the difficulties of using the correct pronouns and currently accepted terminology when writing about one of the first documented trans man who underwent hormone treatment as well as surgery to pass. In the western world, at least, I don't know much about the history of trans people in other areas of the world! An interesting biography of an interesting man. Kind of interesting, but a bit colorless. The source material Kennedy was working from couldn't have been easy - it was contradictory and spotty. I did like learning something about the history of treatments for trans-people, painful as it is. It was mostly about Michael Dillon, a trans-man who managed to stay out of the spotlight and almost out of history. The story of some truly remarkable people, starting of course from Michael Dillon himself. I also discovered a lot about the early history of plastic surgery, and I was surprised by some attitudes to Dillon's sex change, much more accepting than I would have guessed, especially given the period. I am left with the impression that the author didn't do justice to Dillon/Jivaka's seriousness in his spiritual seeking and committment -- but even so, a book I would recommend, and definitely a story worth knowing about. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a womanʼs body, there were no words to describe her condition; ʺtranssexualsʺ 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 menʼs 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 Dillonʼs 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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