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The Female-Impersonators (Paperback)
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The Female-Impersonators (Paperback)
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Loot Price R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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The Female-Impersonators (1922) is an autobiography by Earl Lind.
Accompanied by an introduction by Dr. Alfred W. Herzog, Lind's
autobiography intended for a clinical audience has been recognized
as a pioneering work in the history of transgender literature.
Throughout his life, Lind was forced to justify and defend his
existence from puritanical authorities who refused to even
recognize the reality of his identity as an androgyne. In this
third installment of his autobiographical trilogy, he focuses on
the community of androgynes or "female-impersonators" he joined
when he moved from Connecticut to New York City. "I was predestined
to an unusual role in the great drama we call 'life.' I was brought
into the world as one of the rare humans who possess a strong
claim, on anatomic grounds as well as psychic, to membership in
both the recognized sexes. I was foreordained to live part of my
life as man and part as woman." Situating his own identity within
the history of transgender oppression, Lind makes the case for
recognizing the presence of androgynes in all human societies. Ever
since he was a child, Lind identified as feminine and was keenly
aware of his homosexual desires, gaining a reputation among the
local boys and soon turning to girls for friendship and
understanding. In a world that saw androgynes as both corrupt and
willfully different, Lind sought to increase understanding and to
explain through scientific, historical, and personal evidence why
his identity was congenital, and therefore natural. In this final
installment of his trilogy of autobiographical works, Lind focuses
on the community of androgynes he joined at New York's Columbia
Hall, a well-known brothel and gay bar on the Bowery. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Earl Lind's The Female-Impersonators is a classic
work of transgender literature reimagined for modern readers.
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