Memoirs Of A Man S Maiden Years

Author : N. O. Body
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812220617

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Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years by N. O. Body Pdf

"I was born a boy, raised as a girl. . . . One may raise a healthy boy in as womanish a manner as one wishes, and a female creature in as mannish; never will this cause their senses to remain forever reversed." So writes the pseudonymous N. O. Body, born in 1884 with ambiguous genitalia and assigned a female identity in early infancy. Brought up as a girl, "she" nevertheless asserted stereotypical male behavior from early on. In the end, it was a passionate love affair with a married woman that brought matters to a head. Desperately confused, suicidally depressed, and in consultation with Magnus Hirschfeld, one of the most eminent and controversial sexologists of the day, "she" decided to become "he." Originally published in 1907 and now available for the first time in English, Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years describes a childhood and youth in Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany that is shaped by bourgeois attitudes and stifled by convention. It is, at the same time, a book startlingly charged with sexuality. Yet, however frank the memoirist may be about matters physical or emotional, Hermann Simon reveals in his afterword the full extent of the lengths to which N. O. Body went to hide not just his true name but a second secret, his Jewish identity. And here, Sander L. Gilman suggests in his brilliant preface, may lie the crucial hint to solving the real riddle of the ambiguously gendered N. O. Body.

Author : Annette F. Timm,Joshua A. Sanborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350180031

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Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe by Annette F. Timm,Joshua A. Sanborn Pdf

At a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the history of these deeply connected subjects over the last 250 years. Incorporating a blend of history and historiography, Annette F. Timm and Joshua A. Sanborn write engagingly on gender and sexuality in a way that illuminates our understanding of historical change and individual experience throughout Europe. The new and improved 3rd edition of this textbook now includes: · Personal vignette textboxes which shed light on key themes through individual life stories · Added material on Russia, Eastern Europe, the Holocaust and the 21st century · Historiographical updates throughout that bring the text up-to-date with new scholarship · 30 new images and maps Through 6 thematic chapters that cover democracy, capitalism, imperialism and war, Timm and Sanborn trace the social construction of gender roles, consider gender's influence on political and economic developments during the period and reflect on where European society's relationship with gender will go both now and in the future.

Author : Michaela Koch
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839437056

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Discursive Intersexions by Michaela Koch Pdf

Life narratives and fiction that represent experiences of hermaphroditism and intersex are at the core of Michaela Koch's study. The analyzed texts from the 19th to the early 21st century are embedded within and contrasted with contemporary debates in medicine, psychology, or activism to reveal the processes of negotiation about the meaning of hermaphroditism and intersex. This cultural studies-informed work challenges both strictly essentialist and constructivist notions. It argues for a differentiated perspective on intersex and hermaphrodite experiences as historically contingent, fully embodied, and nevertheless discursive subject positions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004309036

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The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920 by Anonim Pdf

It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp.1740-1920. The history of vitalism is considered in the context of contemporary discourses on radical reality (or deep naturalism).

Author : Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300230215

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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7 by Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss Pdf

Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes collapsed around the world, migration and imperialism remade the lives of millions, nationalism and secularization transformed selves and collectives, utopias beckoned, and new kinds of social conflict threatened as never before. Few communities experienced the pressures and possibilities of the era more profoundly than the world's Jews. This volume, seventh in The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, recaptures the vibrant Jewish cultural creativity, political striving, social experimentation, and fractious religious and secular thought that burst forth in the face of these challenges. Editors Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss capture the full range of Jewish expression in a centrifugal age--from mystical visions to unabashedly antitraditional Jewish political thought, from cookbooks to literary criticism, from modernist poetry to vaudeville. They also highlight the most remarkable dimension of the 1880-1918 era: an audacious effort by newly secular Jews to replace Judaism itself with a new kind of Jewish culture centering on this-worldly, aesthetic creativity by a posited "Jewish nation" and the secular, modern, and "free" individuals who composed it. This volume is an essential starting point for anyone who wishes to understand the divided Jewish present.

Author : Zoë Playdon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982139483

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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoë Playdon Pdf

The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man and the secret 1968 legal case that provides “a fascinating look into the changing landscape of trans rights” (Library Journal) throughout history. Ewan Forbes was born to a wealthy, landowning family, holders of a baronetcy, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1912. Assigned female at birth, his true identity was nevertheless clear even in childhood—and so, with the support of his mother, he was taken to European specialists and eventually treated with early preparations of synthetic testosterone. Raised as a boy at home but socially obliged to present himself as a girl in public until his official coming out to the Queen, Ewan grew up, became a doctor, and got married. (This required him to correct the sex on his birth certificate, which was possible at that time without much fuss.) For decades, he lived a quiet life as a husband, doctor, and a pillar of the local community. But in 1965, Ewan’s older brother died unexpectedly—leaving Ewan, the next oldest man in the family, to inherit the baronetcy. When his cousin John—spurred on by Ewan’s sister—contested the inheritance he was forced to defend his male status in Scotland’s supreme civil court, where he prevailed. This hugely important case would have changed the lives of trans people across the world—had it not been hidden. The hearing was conducted privately, the media were gagged, and those involved were sworn to secrecy. The case remained unknown until 1996 and is at last described here, along with the life of Ewan Forbes, for the first time. Enlightening and galvanizing, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes is a “remarkable…vital historical reference” (Booklist) for transgender history and the ongoing struggle for trans rights.

Author : Michael Thomas Taylor,Annette Timm,Rainer Herrn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472130351

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Not Straight from Germany by Michael Thomas Taylor,Annette Timm,Rainer Herrn Pdf

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Author : Renate Lorenz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839416853

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Queer Art by Renate Lorenz Pdf

A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.

Author : Katie Sutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350010093

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Sexuality in Modern German History by Katie Sutton Pdf

Sexuality in Modern German History offers both a detailed survey of this key subject and a new intervention in the history of sexuality in modern Germany. It investigates the diverse and often contradictory ways in which individuals, activists, doctors, politicians, artists, church leaders, reform movements and cultural commentators have defined 'normal' or 'natural' sexuality in Germany over the past two centuries. Katie Sutton explores how these definitions have been used to shape identities, behaviours, bodies and practices, from norms of heterosexual, marital, reproductive sex to ideas around the policing and categorisation of 'unnatural' or 'deviant' bodies and practices. Covering a range of crucial themes, including birth control, prostitution, queer and trans rights and heterosexual intimacy, this important text comes with 30 illustrations and a wealth of primary source extracts and secondary literature, helpfully integrated to enable further insight and analysis. This is a vital volume for all students and scholars with an interested in modern Germany or the history of sexuality in modern Europe.

Author : CN Lester
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580057844

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Trans Like Me by CN Lester Pdf

A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academic In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really are in terms of progress. From the impact of the media's wording in covering trans people and issues, to the way parenting gender variant children is portrayed, Lester brings their charged personal narrative to every topic and expertly lays out the work left to be done. Trans Like Me explores the ways that we are all defined by ideas of gender -- whether we live as he, she, or they -- and how we can strive for authenticity in a world that forces limiting labels.

Author : Juliet Jacques
Publisher : Influx Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910312780

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Variations by Juliet Jacques Pdf

'Jacques's voice sings out loud and clear – wistful, drily humorous, stiletto-sharp.' – The Observer Variations is the debut short story collection from one of Britain's most compelling voices, Juliet Jacques. Using fiction inspired by found material and real-life events, Variations explores the history of transgender Britain with lyrical, acerbic wit. Variations travels from Oscar Wilde's London to austerity-era Belfast via inter-war Cardiff, a drag bar in Liverpool just after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, Manchester's protests against Clause 28, and Brighton in the 2000s. Through diary entries of an illicit love affair, an oral history of a contemporary political collective; a 1920s academic paper to a 1990s film script; a 1950s memoir to a series of 2014 blog posts, Jacques rewrites and reinvigorates a history so often relegated to stale police records and sensationalist news headlines. Innovative and fresh, Variations is a bold and beautiful book of stories unheard; until now. 'Everything about this book—from the conception, to the language, to the execution—makes me wish I'd been the one to write it. Except I couldn't have. Juliet Jacques is a complete original and this book is the proof.' – Torrey Peters

Author : Joyce A. Cascio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0976237318

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Joyce in the Belly of the Big Truck; Workbook by Joyce A. Cascio Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B3058225

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Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106018508322

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Newhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532311796

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Loopyworld by Steve Newhouse Pdf