Research Catalog

Title

Christine Jorgensen : personal autobiography / by Christine Jorgensen ; with an introduction by Harry Benjamin, M.D.

Author

Jorgensen, Christine, 1926-1989

Publication

• New York : Paul S. Eriksson, Inc., [1967]
• ©1967

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Details

Additional Authors

Benjamin, Harry

Description

xvii, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

In her own personable style, Jorgensen offers her intimate account of her groundbreaking life as the first world-renowned transsexual. 'Nature made a mistake, ' she writes, 'which I have corrected.' Jorgensen speaks candidly of her struggles before and after her surgery, and of her dazzling international celebrity. She was both 'banned' in Boston and named 'Woman of the Year.' Acquainted with many of the celebrities of the time, including Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Natalie Wood and Truman Capote, she was a Las Vegas entertainer, photographer and a filmmaker.

Subject

• Jorgensen, Christine, 1926-1989
• Gender transition > Denmark
• Gender reassignment surgery > Denmark
• Male-to-female transsexuals > Biography
• Male-to-female transsexuals > United States > Biography
• Transsexualism
• Transsexuelles > États-Unis > Biographies
• Transition de genre > Danemark
• Chirurgie de réassignation sexuelle > Danemark
• Transsexuelles > Biographies
• Gender transition
• Gender reassignment surgery
• Transsexuals
• Transsexualität
• Trans women
• Gender affirming surgery
• Transitioning (Gender)
• Transgender people
• Denmark
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Autobiography
• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Transgender biographies.
• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

LCCN

67021524

OCLC

• 268214
• SCSB-11733756

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library