The first man-made man
Subtitle: the story of two sexes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution
By: Pagan Kennedy.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781596910157
Subjects: Dillon, Michael, -- 1915-1962; Transsexuals -- Great Britain -- Biography; Sex change -- Great Britain -- Biography; Gender identity -- Great Britain
Genres: Biography.
Description: In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a womanʼs body, there were no words to describe her condition; ʺtranssexualsʺ had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. Laura Dillon did all she could on her own: she cut her hair, dressed in menʼs clothing, bound her breasts with a belt. But in a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine. From upper-class orphan girl to Oxford lesbian, from post-surgery romance with Roberta Cowell (an early male-to-female) to self-imposed exile in India, Michael Dillonʼs incredible story reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means. Also includes information on Roberta Cowell, Christine Jorgensen, Institute for Sexual Science (Berlin), estrogen, testosterone, etc.