Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen
Autor Richard Docter Fen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2008
Discover Christine Jorgensen’s remarkable, inspirational journey to become the woman she always knew she should have been. Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen provides fascinating insights about the woman who opened doors—and minds—on behalf of sexual minorities. This book chronicles Christine’s drive, ability to solve problems, immense determination, and just plain luck as she transformed herself into her true gender—and reveals facets of her personality previously undisclosed by other biographies of her life.
Christine Jorgensen was a major contributor to the unfolding of the so-called sexual revolution in America. Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen is the story of one courageous individual overcoming personal and social barriers, enduring the difficult compromises that needed to be made, and the ultimate realization of goals. This revealing warts-and-all biography tells Christine’s real story while examining the history of transsexuality in western societies, the medical intervention provided to her, and insightful profiles of Alfred C. Kinsey, Georges Burou, Harry Benjamin, and Christian Hamburger. The appearance and characteristics of cross dressers are also discussed, as well as their lifestyles are contrasted with transsexual persons. This biography serves to illustrate the challenge to lessen discrimination against all LGBT persons—and the struggle that still lies ahead.
Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen explores:
- the supportive and high functioning family in which Christine grew up
- Jorgensen’s struggle with homosexual feelings deemed unacceptable by society
- Jorgensen’s young adult years while presenting as a man
- the steps in his/her transsexual self-identification
- Jorgensen’s determination to redefine himself/herself through medical intervention
- why Dr. Christian Hamburger in Copenhagen took an interest in Jorgensen’s case
- the previously unrevealed story of Jorgensen’s revelations to a news reporter that led to international headlines
- how Jorgensen developed a profitable nightclub act
- the conflicts that accompanied the writing and publication of her autobiography
- Jorgensen’s love/hate personality characteristic and its effect on personal relationships
- much more!
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781560236672
ISBN-10: 1560236671
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1560236671
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Foreword Vern Bullough. Acknowledgments. Introduction C. Jacob Hale 1. Christine, 1988 2. The Jorgensens 3. Elementary and High School 4. RKO Pathé and Military Service 5. Hollywood, 1947 6. The Male Hormone 7. The Transsexual Decision 8. Copenhagen and Christian Hamburger 9. Medical Intervention 10. A New Name, a New Gender 11. Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty 12. Behind the Headlines 13. Return to New York 14. The New York Post Takes Aim 15. Denmark, the Travel Film 16. Developing an Act 17. On the Road 18. The Marriage License 19. Exit Betty Walton 20. Summer Stock 21. Autobiography 22. The Christine Jorgensen Film 23. Retirement and Illness 24. The Final Year
Recenzii
"Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen offers a more studied examination of the state of transsexuality than most biographies offer....An excellent guide for college-level holdings specializing in alternative social issues." - Diane C. Donovan, The Midwest Book Review
Descriere
Discover Christine Jorgensen's remarkable, inspirational journey to become the woman she always knew she should have been. Becoming a Woman: A Biography of Christine Jorgensen provides fascinating insights about the woman who opened doors—and minds—on behalf of sexual minorities. This book chronicles Christine's drive, ability to solve problems, immense determination, and just plain luck as she transformed herself into her true gender—and reveals facets of her personality previously undisclosed by other biographies of her life.