The female-impersonators /
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About This Book
Originally published in 1922, this was a sequel to the Autobiography of an Androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as an instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld. It also includes the life stories of his androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology.
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- The Female-Impersonators A sequel to the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE and an account of some of the author’s experiences during his six years’ career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York’s Underworld; together with the life stories of androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology.
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Introduction
- Part One: The Third Sex
- I. How This Book Came to Be Written.
- II. The Place of the Androgyne in the Male Sex Scale.
- III. Androgynes of Mythology and History.
- IV. Man Is a Passional, Rather Than a Rational, Being.
- Part Two: How the Author Came to Be a Female-Impersonator
- I. Reveries Suggested by My Infancy.
- II. School Days.
- III. An Androgyne’s Youth.
- IV. I Grow into The Fairie Boy.
- V. The Boy Who Never Grew to Be a Man.
- Part Three: The Fairie Boy
- I. Female-Impersonation.
- II. A Typical Female-Impersonation Spree.
- III. The Gambler.
- IV. A Stuyvesant Square Pick-up.
- V. Evenings at Paresis Hall.
- VI. Thoughts Suggested by the “Hermaphroditoi” in General.
- Part Four: Frank—Eunice
- I. Debut as Adult Female-Impersonator.
- II. The Pug Heaven.
- III. A University Friendship.
- IV. The Masked Ball.
- V. Frank—Eunice’s Indiscretion.
- Part Five: Angelo—Phyllis
- I. Angelo Angevine’s Debut as Public Female-Impersonator.
- II. Jailed for Wearing Petticoats.
- III. George Greenwood.[45]
- Part Six: Newspaper Accounts of Murders of Androgynes
- I. Two Murder Mysteries Which, Strangely Alike in Many Ways, Baffled All Efforts to Solve.
- Discovery of the Murder
- A Midnight Caller
- Made No Outcry
- Motive Not Clear
- THE MURDER OF Y
- Strangled to Death
- Probably an Expected Guest
- II. Z Mystery Baffles Inquiry at Every Angle.
- Family Sure Z Was Murdered
- In High Spirits
- III. College Student’s Death is Unexplained.
- Part Seven: Medical Writers on Androgynism
- I. What a New York Official Physician Has to Say about Fairies.
- II. What One of America’s Foremost Medical Writers Has to Say about Fairies.
- Part Eight: Androgyne Verse
- Emotion[50]
- Recollection[51]
- Memories[52]
- French Doll-Baby[53]
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