The first man-made man : the story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution / Pagan Kennedy.

  • Kennedy, Pagan, 1962-
Date:
2007
  • Books

About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.

Physical description

214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-209) and index.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Dr Dave King.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Dillon)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1596910151
  • 9781596910157