Elbe, Lili Man Into Woman (1350021490)
In 1930 Danish artist Einar Wegener underwent a series of surgeries to become Lili Elvenes (more commonly known as Lili Elbe). Her life story, Fra Mand til Kvinde (From Man Into Woman), published in Copenhagen in 1931, is the first full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes a surgical change in sex. 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 throughout. 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 gender studies, modernist literature and life writing, and critical coverage of the 2015 biopic, The Danish Girl.
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