Man into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition

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Title

Man into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/man-into-woman-9781350021495/

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Pamela L Caughie

Abstract

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), published in Copenhagen in 1931, is the first popular full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes genital transformation surgery (Genitalumwandlung).

In Man Into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition, Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer present the full text of the 1933 American edition of Elbe's work with comprehensive notes on textual and paratextual variants across the four published editions in three languages. This edition also includes a substantial scholarly introduction which situates the historical and intellectual context of Elbe's work, as well as new essays on the work by leading scholars in transgender studies and modernist literature, and critical coverage of the 2015 biopic, The Danish Girl.

Date

February 20, 2020

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Identifier

9781350021495

Bibliographic Citation

Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer, eds. Man into Woman: A Comparative Scholarly Edition. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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