Christine Jorgensen [Texte imprimé] : A Personal Autobiography
Language: anglais ; of summary, anglais.Country: États-Unis, Canada.Publication: Bantam Books, août 1968Series: Non-fictionAbstract: "Ex-G.I. Becomes Blonde Beauty" Fifteen years ago, a slender young woman stepped off a plane from Denmark to be greeted by howling reporters and an outraged American public. The women, Christine Jorgensen, had been born a male, and after living as a shy, effeminate yound man for twenty-four years, had been surgically transformed into a woman... For Christine, the transformation signaled the end of a tortured search for sexual identity. For the press and the public, however, "George-Christine" became America's No.1 topic of conversation. Now, in a daring, intimate and courageous autobiography, Christine Jorgensen sets the record straight - answering all the questions, correcting the misconceptions, and describing, with remarkable candor, the reasons for and the results of her astonishing sexual change. .Subject: Christine Jorgensen | Transexualité | États-Unis | Autobiographie | Chirurgie de réattribution sexuelle | Chirurgie d'affirmation de genre | The Transsexual Phenomenon (Harry Benjamin)| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"Ex-G.I. Becomes Blonde Beauty"
Fifteen years ago, a slender young woman stepped off a plane from Denmark to be greeted by howling reporters and an outraged American public. The women, Christine Jorgensen, had been born a male, and after living as a shy, effeminate yound man for twenty-four years, had been surgically transformed into a woman...
For Christine, the transformation signaled the end of a tortured search for sexual identity. For the press and the public, however, "George-Christine" became America's No.1 topic of conversation.
Now, in a daring, intimate and courageous autobiography, Christine Jorgensen sets the record straight - answering all the questions, correcting the misconceptions, and describing, with remarkable candor, the reasons for and the results of her astonishing sexual change.
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