Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years
Memoirs of a Man's Maiden YearsN. O. Body. Translated by Deborah Simon. Preface by Sander L. Gilman. Afterword by Hermann SimonThis is a very interesting and beautifully written memoir by somebody who would have been called a hermaphrodite in the nineteenth century. The work gives a fascinating picture of the childhood experiences of the anonymous author and is full of sensitive and often moving observations on the plights of sexual ambiguity in childhood. The style, apparently so simple and relatively dispassionate, is extremely effective in pulling the reader into the story.--Chandak SengooptaI was born a boy, raised as a girl. . . . One ma…
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Weitere Autoren: Gilman, Sander L. (Ausw.) / Simon, Deborah (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-2061-2
- EAN: 9780812220612
- Produktnummer: 4466762
- Verlag: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.5 cm 181 g
- Gewicht: 181
Über den Autor
N. O. Body was the pseudonym of Karl M. Baer, the director of the Berlin B'nai B'rith until his emigration from Germany in 1938. He died in Israel in 1956. Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is the author or editor of more than seventy books, including Jewish Self-Hatred and Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (coedited with Zhou Xun). Dr. Hermann Simon is the director of the Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum Foundation and is the coauthor and coeditor of Jews in Berlin. Deborah Simon is a teacher of English and translation studies at Humboldt University, Berlin.
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