The Chevalier D Eon 1728 1810

Author : M. S. Coryn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B707854

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The Chevalier D'Eon, 1728-1810 by M. S. Coryn Pdf

Author : Gary Kates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050174518

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Monsieur D'eon Is A Woman by Gary Kates Pdf

Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did without complaint for the next three decades. Although celebrated as one of the century's most remarkable women, d'Eon was revealed, after his death in 1810, to have been unambiguously male. Gary Kates's acclaimed biography of d'Eon recreates eighteenth-century European society in brilliant detail and offers a compelling portrait of an individual who challenged its conventions about gender and identity.

Author : Gary Kates
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801867316

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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman by Gary Kates Pdf

"A fascinating book. Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman is instructive and a delight to read all at the same time."—Quentin Crisp Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did without complaint for the next three decades. Although celebrated as one of the century's most remarkable women, d'Eon was revealed, after his death in 1810, to have been unambiguously male. Gary Kates's acclaimed biography of d'Eon recreates eighteenth-century European society in brilliant detail and offers a compelling portrait of an individual who challenged its conventions about gender and identity.

Author : Simon Burrows,Jonathan Conlin,Russell Goulbourne,Valerie Mainz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441174048

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The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds by Simon Burrows,Jonathan Conlin,Russell Goulbourne,Valerie Mainz Pdf

Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last century his gender transformation has been viewed through a Freudian lens. His cross-dressing, it was usually assumed, must have a psychosexual explanation. Until the second half of the twentieth century the terms 'Eonist' and 'Eonism' were the standard English words for transvestites and transvestism respectively, but 'Eonism' was also, thanks to Havelock Ellis, widely regarded as a psychological condition or compulsion. However, in the mid-twentieth century, new ideas about gender-identity disorders led to d'Eon being redefined not as a transvestite, but a transsexual - a person who considers their sex to have been 'misassigned'. The essays in this collection contribute to d'Eon's rehabilitation as a figure worthy of scholarly attention and display a variety of disciplinary approaches. Drawing on new research into d'Eon's life, this volume offers original and nuanced readings of how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.

Author : Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : France
ISBN : NYPL:33433082355912

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The true story of the chevalier d'Eon by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Pdf

Author : Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011619285

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The true story of the chevalier d'Eon by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1560001119

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The French Secret Services by Anonim Pdf

The French secret services have a long history dating back to the "ancien regime. "With the founding of the Third Republic (1870-1940) the famous Second Bureau was created as France's principal intelligence-gathering organization. After the Germans invaded France in 1940, however, the services splintered and diversified, with Vichy agencies and Collaborationists, the Free French and the internal resistance all in contention. More recently, since 1944 the activities of the reorganized French secret services have extended across a surprisingly wide area, sometimes with spectacular results as in the 'Greenpeace Affair' in New Zealand in 1985. This volume deals with the French secret services according to a chronological framework which reflects the evolution of the services which were created and transformed by both internal and external historical factors. The bibliography commences with an examination of the origins and development of the French Intelligence Service from the "ancien regime "to 1870. It then considers the history and activities of the secret services during the following periods: the Third Republic; the Second World War; the Fourth Republic; and the Fifth Republic, firstly between 1958 and 1981 and then during the 1980s and 1990s, including the 'Greenpeace Affair'. This is an essential reference tool for all those interested in the history of intelligence agencies and national security in general and in the development of the French secret services in particular.

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082913453

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by New York Public Library. Research Libraries Pdf

Author : Andrew Parker,Mary Russo,Doris Sommer,Patricia Yaeger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429802768

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Nationalisms & Sexualities by Andrew Parker,Mary Russo,Doris Sommer,Patricia Yaeger Pdf

Originally published in 1992, Nationalisms and Sexualities addresses questions of how notions of identity are shaped by discussions of nationalism and sexuality. The book looks at a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, on a wide range of geographical regions and historical moments. The volume departs from social scientific paradigms that treat nation and sexuality as discrete and autonomous entities. Its contributors respond instead to emerging issues that redefine the horizons of what is globally considered today as "the political": how the formation of sexual, gendered, racial, and/or class identities have contributed to the formation of sexual, gendered, racial, and/or class identities, and vice versa; how technologies of representation play a role in the constitution of national and sexual identities; how colonialism and postcolonialism have altered consolidations of national and sexual identities.

Author : Brian O'Doherty
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783943365962

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The Crossdresser's Secret by Brian O'Doherty Pdf

The eighteenth century was an era of violent contrasts and radical change, intellectual brilliance and war, spies and diplomatic intrigue, elegance and cruelty. One of the century's most mysterious figures was the Chevalier d'Eon, who lived as both man and woman, French spy and European celebrity. Written from the perspective of this historical figure, the novel by Brian O'Doherty—artist and author of, among others, the critical milestone Inside the White Cube and the Booker Prize–shortlisted The Deposition of Father McGreevy—reveals d'Eon's radical modernity, certified by his attitudes to gender and his examination of his own nature. He ponders the social determinants of sexual identity and studies the manners and conventions governing discourse between the sexes. At the same time, as diplomat and spy, he is involved in the power politics of nations. The novel holds close to historical facts and reproduces some of d'Eon's comments as recorded in his voluminous journals. Apparently his life did not become real to him until he had rehearsed it in writing.

Author : Richard Cohen
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307430748

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By the Sword by Richard Cohen Pdf

“Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio—the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”—Simon Winchester With a new Preface by the author Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess—his future wife— when the two of them returned home from school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ’s divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was “off to get spaghetti,” their code to avoid alarming the children. By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting—a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword. Praise for By the Sword “Touché! While scrupulous and informed about its subject, Richard Cohen’s book is about more than swordplay. It reads at times like an alternative social history of the West.”—Sebastian Faulks “In writing By the Sword, [Cohen] has shown that he is as skilled with the pen as he is with the sword.”—The New York Times “Irresistible . . . extraordinary . . . vivid and hugely enjoyable.”—The Economist “A virtual encyclopedia on the subject of sword fighting.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Literate, learned, and, beg pardon, razor-sharp . . . a pleasure for practitioners, and a rewarding entertainment for the armchair swashbuckler.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author : Julia Luisa Abramson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0874139007

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Learning from Lying by Julia Luisa Abramson Pdf

"Learning from Lying narrates a new literary history as seen through the lens of mystification. Beginning with an examination of mystification's elaboration during the century of Enlightenment, the book accounts for mystification's distinctiveness relative to other deceptive forms, particularly forgery, and provides a timely intervention in current debates about the study of fakes. Readings of works by Denis Diderot, Prosper Merimee, and Wolfgang Hildesheimer follow out the cosmopolitan roots of the genre in the Republic of Letters and show how it theorizes literature through practical experiment. For when textual imitation is revealed, it unveils the necessary collusion between reader and writer that allows literature to exist as such."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bolich,Ph. D. G. G. Bolich
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780615167664

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Transgender History & Geography: Crossdressing in Context by Bolich,Ph. D. G. G. Bolich Pdf

The third in a landmark five volume study of transgender realities, with a focus on crossdressing, this fascinating volume offers a tour through history and around the world. Within these pages are found the most famous crossdressers of history and information as to what it means to be a transgender person in the various countries of the world today.

Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190934453

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The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay by Karen Green Pdf

This volume brings together all the available letters between historian Catharine Macaulay and a number of eighteenth-century luminaries, including George Washington, David Hume, and Mary Wollstonecraft. It includes an extended introduction by the editor which offers unique insights into Macaulay's life and the thinking of her friends and correspondents.

Author : Anil Aggrawal
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781420043099

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Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices by Anil Aggrawal Pdf

From sexual abuse and fetishism to necrophilia and sadomasochism, this unique volume identifies fourteen classifications of unusual sexual pathologies. Emphasizing the physical and psychological aspects of sexuality itself, the book presents detailed comparisons of legal and medical definitions, historical aspects, current incidence, and geographic