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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment de Zoe Playdon

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment: Bloomsbury Publishing

Autor Zoe Playdon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2022
The never-before-told story of Ewan Forbes and the landmark case that rocked British society and transformed transgender experience to this day*LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CROWNS*'A remarkable story' The Times'Almost reads like a thriller' Sunday Times'One of the most important pieces of investigative journalism ever written about trans people' i-------------------Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial means of procuring synthetic hormones, Ewan was able to live as a boy, and then as man, and was even able to correct the sex on his birth certificate in order to marry.Then, in 1965, his older brother died and Ewan was set to inherit the family baronetcy. After his cousin contested the inheritance on the grounds that it could only be inherited by a male heir, Ewan was forced to defend his male status in an extraordinary court case, testing the legal system of the time to the limits of its understanding.In The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, Zoë Playdon draws on the fields of law, medicine, psychology and biology to reveal a remarkable hidden history, uncovering for the first time records that were considered so threatening that they had been removed from view for decades.
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ISBN-13: 9781526619143
ISBN-10: 1526619148
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Seria Bloomsbury Publishing

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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A never-before-told story based on years of archival research, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes lifts the lid on a landmark case that was deliberately suppressed for decades - preventing it from being used in trans court cases and indelibly shaping the trans experience in Britain

Notă biografică

Zoë Playdon is the Emeritus Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of London. She holds five degrees, including two doctorates. She is a former co-Chair of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD) and, with Dr Lynne Jones MP, co-founded the Parliamentary Forum on Gender Identity in 1994, which continues to meet. Zoë has thirty years' experience of front-line work in LGBTI human rights, including legal cases, where she has worked with many legal teams. The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes is her first book for a mainstream audience.

Recenzii

There are so many twists and turns in the tale that follows that it sometimes reads like a thriller . . . She's a skilful storyteller, and her descriptions of the Scottish landscape are so vivid I wanted to leap on a train and gaze at "the falling sun" making the shadows of beech trees "a ladder of light"
Class, sex, money, perjury - the story of how Elisabeth became Sir Ewan has everything . . . Zoë Playdon tells a remarkable story here: part legal mystery, part courtroom drama, part family saga. It's driven by class, sex and money and it contains one of the most audacious acts of perjury you're ever likely to read about
A landmark story of trans rights . . . A complex story compellingly told
The case of Ewan Forbes was a landmark, and kudos to Playdon for unearthing it
Zoë Playdon's erudite, passionate [and] ultimately persuasive new book . . . encapsulates this reality by telling three stories at once . . . This account is contextualized by a rich and riveting social history of trans people's rocky road to cultural acceptance in the West, from the early 20th century up to the current day
A revelation . . . Zoë Playdon has written a formidable book . . . Magnificently researched and told
Zoë Playdon shines dazzling light on the case of an early trans pioneer, a man whose dignity and courage remain an inspiration to a new generation of trans people, and those that love us. Abundant with compassion, clarity, and meticulous research, Ms. Playdon ensures that Ewan Forbes' case will remain hidden no more. Urgent, generous, and wise
As a seasoned activist and skilled academic, Zoë Playdon provides us with an illuminating account of the trans struggle for justice, human rights and equality. Her lens is the secret case of Ewan Forbes, where a class-based legal system sought to preserve male primogeniture. This is a landmark work of history, law and social change