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Item Details
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE
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| By: |
Ralph Werther, Scott Herring (Editor), Bradford J.M. Verter |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£21.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813543002 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813543000 |
| Publisher: |
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 February, 2008 |
| Series: |
Subterranean Lives Series |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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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US |
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Rutgers University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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