Man into woman : a comparative scholarly edition / Lili Elbe ; edited by Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer.

In 1930 Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a series of surgeries to live as Lili Ilse Elvenes (more commonly known as Lili Elbe). Her life story, Fra Mand til Kvinde (From Man to Woman), is the first popular full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes genital transformatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Modernist archives series.
Main Author: Elbe, Lili, 1882-1931 (Author)
Other Authors: Caughie, Pamela L.
Meyer, Sabine
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Series:Modernist archives series.
Subjects:
Elbe, Lili, > 1882-1931.
Elbe, Lili, > 1882-1931. > Fra mand til kvinde. > English.
Transsexuals > Denmark > Biography.
Intersexuality.
Gender transition.
Gender transition > Hormone therapy.
Gender reassignment surgery.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xxi, 299 pages : illustrated (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. A short life of Lili Elbe ; A short history of sexology ; Man into Woman and modernist life writing ; Compositional and publication history ; Contributors' essays
  • Corpus. Man into Woman: an authentic record of a sex change ; Textural notes
  • New essays on Man into Woman. The binary bind: inversion, intersexuality and interest in a very queer Künstlerroman / Madelyn Detloff
  • Current and historical notions of sexed embodiment and transition in relation to Lili Elvenes / Solve M. Holm
  • Man into Woman: a modernist experimental genre / Michael Levenson
  • Magic and medicine: Man into Woman and anthropology / Tim Armstrong
  • Getting the Lili we deserve? Telling a different story of Lili Elbe through the portraits of Gerda Wegener / Tobias Raun
  • A pretty knot of lilies: disentangling Lili Elbe's longue durée in pop culture / Eliza Steinbock.