Download or read book Autobiography of an Androgyne written by Earl Lind and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl Lind’s 1918 autobiography 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. In the first of his trilogy of autobiographical works, he not only demands recognition, but exposes the denial of his existence as nothing but hatred and fear. “Androgynes have of course existed in all ages of history and among all races. In Greek and Latin authors there are many references to them, but these references are not always understood except by the few scholars who are themselves androgynes or at least passive sexual inverts. […] [T]hese men-women, because misunderstood, have been held in great abomination both in the middle ages and in modern times, but the prejudice against them was not so extreme in antiquity, and a cultured citizen having this nature did not then lose caste on this account.” Situating his own identity within this history of 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. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Earl Lind’s Autobiography of an Androgyne is a classic work of transgender literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Autobiography of an Androgyne Classic Reprint written by Earl Lind and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Autobiography of an Androgyne Such a defense might be attempted and successfully carried out, were it possible to bring this question before a jury of unbiased, open-minded and independent thinkers, who would decide the question upon the platform Of equal justice to all, weighing the relative harmfulness of all sexual crimes and excesses, and who would not punish those Indulging in homosexual practices, if they refuse to punish those indulging in sexual crimes and excesses vastly more injurious to the human race and to society. This book is published in an endeavor to Obtain justice and humane treatment for the Androgynes, that class of homosexualists in whom homosexuality is not an acquired vice but in whom it is congenital. Iii-pleading a case in Court, even before the highest tribunals, it is good practice not to take it for granted that the judge knows the law, or even facts, which might appear to the pleader to be matters Of common knowledge; and so -i may be excused if I state to the reader matters which to him may be already familiar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Autobiography of an Androgyne written by Ralph Werther and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This work also traces how this autobiography engages with the invention of homosexuality across class lines.
Download or read book The Female Impersonators written by Ralph Werther and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Female-Impersonators: A Sequel to the Autobiography of an Androgyne and an Account of Some of the Author's Experiences During His Six Years' Career as Instinctive Female-Impersonator in New York's Underworld The sale Of the book, while not as large as it ought to have been, Showed however that the interest of the professional man could be awakened, and he be made to realize that the androgyne is no more to be punished for his harmless sexual transgressions than a congenital physical cripple for the latter's unaesthetic physique. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Female Impersonators written by Earl Lind and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Autobiography of an Androgyne written by Earl Lind and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of an Androgyne is the first autobiography of Earl Lind, writer and activist for the rights of people who didn't conform to gender and sexual norms. The goal in writing this book was to help create an accepting environment for young adults who don't conform to gender and sexual norms, because that was what he would have wanted for himself, and he wanted to prevent youth from committing suicide. The author wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of his practice of alternating between these two gender expressions.
Download or read book Autobiography of an Androgyne written by Earl Lind (pseud) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE BY EARL LIND written by EARL LIND and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE BY EARL LIND by EARL LIND is a candid and pioneering work that offers a rare insight into the life and experiences of an individual who challenged societal norms. A groundbreaking exploration of gender and identity. Delve into a remarkable life story. Order AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE today and gain a unique perspective on humanity and self-discovery.
Download or read book Autobiography of an Androgyne Centennial Edition written by Rae Raucci and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an AndrogyneCentennial EditionThis compilatory book includes most every work of the early 20th transgender activist Jennie June, who also went under the pseudonym of Ralph Wether, and whose birth name was Earl Lind.Between 1918-1922, Jennie June published two volumes of transgender memoirs (Autobiography of an Androgyne and The Female Impersonators), as well as several articles about transgender life in leading medical journals of the day, and also response rebuttals to misinformed articles by medical "experts" about trans and LGBTQ persons at the time of the early 20th century. Her books discuss the works of diverse sexuality personalities such as Magnus Hirshfeld, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, and Kraft-Ebbing, not to mention not only her own graphic accounts of her violent life as a transgender woman at that time, but other trans peoples lives, as well.This volume includes all of this revelatory material, as well as substantial excerpts of Ms. June's third work of autobiography, The Riddle of the Underworld. Further material includes contemporary reviews of both of the two published autobiography works by Ms. June, and a rare contemporary account of a transgender woman's medical examination by an extremely unsympathetic New York doctor in 1916, who was related to Ms. June as being her photographer in 1908 and 1918.
Download or read book Wagner Androgyne written by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and art. So argues Jean-Jacques Nattiez in this richly insightful work, where he draws from semiology, music criticism, and psychoanalysis to explore such topics as Wagner's theories of music drama, his anti-Semitism, and his psyche. Wagner, who wrote the libretti for the operas he composed, maintained that art is the union of the feminine principle, music, and the masculine principle, poetry. In light of this androgynous model, Nattiez reinterprets the Wagnerian canon, especially the Ring of the Nibelung, which is shown to contain a metaphorical transposition of Wagner's conception of the history of music: Siegfried appears as the poet, Brunnhilde, as music, and their union is an androgynous one in which individual identity fades and the lovers revert to a preconflictual, presexual state. Nattiez traces the androgynous symbol in Wagner's theoretical writings throughout his career. Looking to explain how this idea, so closely bound up with sexuality, took root in Wagner's mind, the author considers the possibility of Freudian and Jungian interpretations. In particular he explores the composer's relationship with his mother, a distant woman who discouraged his interest in the theater, and his stepfather, a loving man whom Wagner suspected was not only his real father but also a Jew. Along with psychoanalysis, Nattiez critically applies various structuralist and feminist theories to Wagner's creative enterprise to demonstrate how the nature of twentieth-century hermeneutics is itself androgynous. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Female impersonators written by Ralph Werther and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stone Wall written by Mary Casal and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stone Wall: An Autobiography Many will declare it to have been an abnormal life. I do not believe every Woman has been through all the experiences that I have (i certainly hope not for their sakes), but I do believe that every woman has had some of the problems that I have had to face. Many will deny a knowledge of any of them, afraid to acknowledge even to themselves the whole truth. In judging reactions in a child's mind, I ask the readers of today to remember that I was born in 1864, and also to realize the atmosphere of the home life of that period. I expect to speak openly of things which, in the modern novel, are represented by asterisks; on the stage by the lowering Of the curtain; in the press many times without restriction, but as ordinary news to sell the paper, and in conversation by a rising of the eyebrows or a shrug of the shoulders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Alter Ego written by William Wesley Walker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alter Ego: A Tale Our salvation, then, and the lifting lip and saving of others is the exercise of that vital principle which has its incarna tion in hope. The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into mole-hills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Androgyne Journal written by James Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Female Impersonators a Sequel to the Autobiography of an Androgyne and an Account of Some of the Author s Experiences During His Six Years Career as Instinctive Female impersonator in New York s Underworld written by Ralph Werther and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by Albert James Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lord Who Is Half Woman written by Ellen Goldberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The designation "Lord Who Is Half Woman" refers to the androgynous Hindu god Ardhanarisvara (also known as Siva-Sakti). While iconographical aspects of this significant image have been addressed, the complex theological, philosophical, and social implications inherent in a dual gendered deity have not. This book provides the first extensive study of the influence of Ardhanarisvara, exploring four distinct areas of Indian culture, namely iconography, hatha yoga, devotional poetry (bhakti), and mythology. Ellen Goldberg also offers a feminist analysis of the ways in which "male" and "female" have been constructed in this image and the various representations pertaining to the broader gender implications of an androgynous deity.
