
The First Man-Made Man (eBook, ePUB)
The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
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"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. Mic...
"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.
"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.