Description
Book SynopsisFirst 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. This work also traces how this autobiography engages with the invention of homosexuality across class lines.
Trade ReviewHerring is emerging as one of the most important voices in queer American studies. His elegant, lucid prose dynamically introduces a fascinating but neglected work of autobiography, giving us a unique window onto the bewildering dynamics that fueled the process of coming to terms with American sexual modernity. -- Michael Cobb * author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence *
Scott Herring's strategically brilliant introduction to this new edition of
Autobiography of an Adrogyne provides a valuable measure of the advances made in sexuality studies in recent decades. He shows particular brilliance in his analysis of the work as a remarkable kind of literary hybrid, mixing elements of popular formula fiction with avant-garde fields of nascent psychologies and sociologies of sex at the end of the nineteenth century. -- Michael Moon * Emory University *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
A Notes on the Text
Autobiography of an Androgyne
Explanatory Notes
