| Description |
343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Beginning -- Raw power -- pt. 2. Before testosterone -- Get more cigarettes -- Adolescent sphinx -- Dresses, wrestling, and Barbies -- Kamikaze night walking -- Crime, poetry, dungeons, and psychic forces -- Fun house -- Theater of fate -- First sign -- Psychiatrist's tabloid tales--feminist paranoia -- Manhattan July -- Imagination and body -- Cautionary tales -- The hormones really work -- Epiphanies -- Beards, housewives, and ex-lesbian separatists -- Birthday party -- Getting my name -- Binding -- Patriarchal underwear cannibals -- pt. 3. After testosterone -- Blood rites -- Saying goodbye -- The incredible hulk -- Hunger -- Shaving -- Breaking the news -- Sex for sale -- In the grip of the goddess -- Urine, scents, and bathrooms -- Authority -- Saint Priapus -- Venus of data entry -- Man with breasts -- Normal guy -- Cock in my pocket -- Juliet -- Twilight zone -- Weird, weird world -- Sex wars -- "It's a great gimmick" -- Predator -- Stripper -- Commitment -- Territory -- Initiation -- Testosterone, energy, and aggression -- Further initiations -- Cold dark shades -- The end of tears -- Switching places -- Phantom dick -- Adam's apple |
| Summary |
"Max Wolf Valerio's observations about transitioning from a lesbian to a heterosexual male both challenge and confirm our assumptions about gender. As Valerio undergoes the physical and emotional changes associated with testosterone treatment, he is intrigued by his eye-opening discoveries about the nature of masculinity and femininity. The Testosterone Files offers a perspective on men and women that only someone who's lived in both skins can speak to with such insight and eloquence."--BOOK JACKET |
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Valerio, Max W. (Max Wolf)
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Valerio, Max W. (Max Wolf) |
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Transsexuals -- United States -- Biography
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Gender transition -- United States -- Biography
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Gender transition.
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Transsexuals.
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Transitioning (Gender)
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Transmasculine people
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Testosterone
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| LC no. |
2005037674 |
| ISBN |
1580051731 |
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9781580051736 |
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