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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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Paperback |
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224 |
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2008-03-04 |
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B001P80LEQ |
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Bloomsbury USA |
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0.65 pounds |
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5.5 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches |
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1st |
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Product Description
“Part biography, part cultural history, The First Man-Made Man is a dramatic, revelatory narrative that brightly illuminates the psyche of the first female-to-male.”—Chicago Sun Times In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman’s body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. 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. Michael Dillon’s incredible story, from upper-class orphan girl to Buddhist monk, reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.
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http://bookmooch.com/B001P80LEQ |
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