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Title: Review: THE FIRST MAN-MADE MAN
Post by: LostInTime on December 11, 2006, 02:56:09 PM
Post by: LostInTime on December 11, 2006, 02:56:09 PM
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The revealing story of an Oxford graduate named Laura Dillon, who secretively transformed herself into a man several years before Christine Jorgensen made "transsexual" a household word.
While primarily a biography, the book also traces the history of scientists' evolving ideas about what it means to be male or female. Kennedy (Confessions of a Memory Eater, July 2006, etc.) makes use of Dillon's own writings and those of other transsexuals; she consulted plastic surgeons, members of the transgendered community and a Buddhist monk who was Dillon's mentor in India.
The revealing story of an Oxford graduate named Laura Dillon, who secretively transformed herself into a man several years before Christine Jorgensen made "transsexual" a household word.
While primarily a biography, the book also traces the history of scientists' evolving ideas about what it means to be male or female. Kennedy (Confessions of a Memory Eater, July 2006, etc.) makes use of Dillon's own writings and those of other transsexuals; she consulted plastic surgeons, members of the transgendered community and a Buddhist monk who was Dillon's mentor in India.