Sexual Metamorphosis Sexual Metamorphosis

Sexual Metamorphosis

An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2005
April 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
3.4
MB

Customer Reviews

shmatzolla ,

Very important

This should be required reading for everyone. Very well chosen selections.

BASSMENT13 STUDIO ,

Love it!!!!

I’m currently reading this book and absolutly LOVE IT!!!! It’s a must for anyone who wants a taste of all the diffent types of transgender journeys there are out there. It’s amazing how many things we share and how unique our journey is at the same time.

-Xoxo

Camille

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