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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. 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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  • Title The First Man-Made Man The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
  • Author Kennedy, Pagan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 214
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, NY
  • Date March 4, 2008
  • ISBN 9781596910164

About the author

Pagan Kennedy has published eight books. Her biography Black Livingstone was named a New York Times Notable Book. Her novel Spinsters was short-listed for the Orange Prize and was the winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, the Village Voice, Details, the Utne Reader, the Nation, and Ms. magazine. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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First trade paperback edition, published by Bloomsbury, 2008. 214 pages, with Index, Bibliography, and Notes. The true story of Laura Dillon. In the 1920's she had always felt that she was a man trapped in a woman's body. Dillon's courageous challenge to the strict Biology of sex helped to change the idea of what gender means, and revolutionized modern medicine. This copy is not a remainder, not a library discard. No former ownership marks. No writing on the text pages, no highlighting. No creases to the cover, very very faint crease to the spine which is barely visible. The binding is tight and square. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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