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Description: ISBN 0571209467 / Genre: Biography Newest Review: ... (as quoted in the book) a conviction of being born into the wrong sex. He was a happily married journalist in the USA with ... more |
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Format: Paperback, Publisher: The University of Chicago Press(31-
Pages: 351, Paperback, Chicago University Press - Books/Subjects/ ... |
£ 15,49 |
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by tufty - written on 02.09.00 (Useful, 59 readings)
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CONUNDRUM This is a story about Miss Jan Morris (aka James Morris ) and a most extraordinary example of the phenomenon known as trans-sexualism (as quoted in the book) a conviction of being born into the wrong sex. He was a happily married journalist in the USA with four children and spent years struggling with his inner self and how to escape it. She discusses the tangled meanings of trans-sexualism and she movingly evokes the indefinable, inexorable and for most of us the unimaginable force which led her through many years of torment, then to the surgeon’s clinic in Casablanca and a joyful if strange fulfilment. She still maintains the family ...
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