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Pagan Kennedy
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The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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224 |
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2007-03-06 |
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1596910151 |
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Bloomsbury USA |
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0.95 pounds |
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5.47 x 0.86 x 8.41 inches |
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1st |
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1 dan polsby (USA: CA) |
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1 Platee (USA: NJ) |
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Product Description
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.
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http://bookmooch.com/1596910151 |
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