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Autobiography of an Androgyne (Paperback)
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Autobiography of an Androgyne (Paperback)
Series: Subterranean Lives
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First printed in 1918, Ralph Werther's ""Autobiography of an
Androgyne"" charts his emerging self-understanding as a member of
the ""third sex"" and documents his explorations of queer
underworlds in turn-of-the-century New York City. Werther presents
a sensational life narrative that begins with a privileged
upper-class birth and a youthful realization of his difference from
other boys. He concludes with a decision to undergo castration.
Along the way, he recounts intimate stories of adolescent sexual
encounters with adult men and women, escapades as a reckless
""fairie"" who trolled Brooklyn and the Bowery in search of
working-class Irish and Italian immigrants, and an immersion into
the subculture of male ""inverts.""This new edition also includes a
critical introduction by Scott Herring that situates the text
within the scientific, historical, literary, and social contexts of
urban American life in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth
centuries. Tracing how this pioneering autobiography engages with
conversations on immigration, gender, economics, metropolitan
working-class culture, and the invention of homosexuality across
class lines, this edition is ideal for courses on topics ranging
from Victorian literature to modern American sexuality.
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