{"product_id":"autobiography-of-an-androgyne-subterranean-lives-series-9780813543000","title":"Autobiography of an Androgyne Subterranean Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerring 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 *\u003cbr\u003eScott Herring's strategically brilliant introduction to this new edition of \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of an Adrogyne\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e A Notes on the Text\u003cbr\u003e Autobiography of an Androgyne\u003cbr\u003e Explanatory Notes","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405778755927,"sku":"9780813543000","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813543000.jpg?v=1730493584","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/autobiography-of-an-androgyne-subterranean-lives-series-9780813543000","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}