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Autobiography of an Androgyne
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 othe
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256 pages
Published
February 22nd 2008
by Rutgers University Press
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Fascinating book written at the turn of the century and published initially in 1919. The author is a middle-class Anglo-American from the Northeastern U.S. who at times slums in New York City as a fairie among the immigrant working classes. The author had read Krafft-Ebing - the work is sort of a mix of auto-psycho-pathology, and memoir.
There's even lyrics for some self-written songs, odes to violent military men that Jennie June (the author's faerie identity) sought the attentions of. (the tra ...more
There's even lyrics for some self-written songs, odes to violent military men that Jennie June (the author's faerie identity) sought the attentions of. (the tra ...more
I can imagine it would've been a ground-breaking work had it been published for the general public and not just for a limited circle of sexulogists, doctors and lawyers (we don't want to spread obscene works, do we...). Today, this apologia is not as impressive, though it serves as a valuable complex probe into gay life in the US at the turn of the 20th century. However, it's mixed with fiction and the informative value is thus somehow diminished by the author's fables.
Very much a product of the times, with the pseudo scientific terms, and delicate physical descriptions. There are some insightful passages, but most of the time you are doubting the author's veracity. Indulgent, sometimes humorous, rarely truthful... A fitting description of languid aesthete
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