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 Sherman Library  HQ77.8.G34 G64 2022    AVAILABLE  
Author Goetsch, Diana, author.
Title This body I wore : a memoir / Diana Goetsch.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 1264275757
ISBN 9780374115098 hardcover
0374115095 hardcover
(ebook)
Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
©2022.
Description 316 pages ; 22 cm
LC Subject heading/s Goetsch, Diana.
Transgender women -- United States -- Biography.
Poets, American -- Biography.
Gender transition -- United States.
Gender identity.
Other
Genre heading/s		 Autobiographies.
Contents Prologue: stepping out -- Woman good man bad -- The admirer -- The fabric factory -- The limelight -- Stuyvesant -- Jeri -- Straight pool -- URNotAlone -- Accident -- Northport -- War is hell -- Isle of Staten -- Femme fever -- Poet-in-captivity -- Revisionist history -- In the cabin of the crazy one -- The thousand gateless gates -- Epilogue: Mother's Day.
Summary "A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself"-- Provided by publisher.
How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? Goetsch brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and '90s. Under cover of night, crossdressers risked their jobs and their safety to give expression to urges they could neither control nor understand. Here Goetsch chronicles her long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. -- adapted from jacket.
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