Title: The First Man-Made Man
Subtitle: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
First published: 2006
Description: In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexuals 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 men's 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 Dillon's incredible story reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.
Subjects: Gender Identity, Sex change, Genitalia, Transsexuals, Transvestism, Transsexualism, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Surgery, History, Biography, History, 20th Century, Female-to-male transsexuals, New York Times reviewed, Great britain, biography, Gender transition, Hormone therapy, Gender reassignment surgery
Places: Great Britain
People: Michael Dillon (1915-1962), Roberta Cowell (1918-)
LC classification: HQ77.8.D55 K46 2006