Lili Elbe (19 results)

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Gebunden. Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorLili Elbe (1882-1931) was a successful painter, born in Denmark, and one of the first transgender women to undergo sex reassignment surgery, an experience recounted in her posthumously published memoir, Man I.

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Rústica. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. 01. Relato crudo y tremendamente inspirador, realizado a partir de los diarios y manuscritos sobre la transición de género de la arista danesa Lili Elbe.Lili Elbe nació como Einar Mogens Wegener en la ciudad de Vejle, Dinamarca en 1882. Si bien Einar fue un reputado pintor paisajista danés, también es conocido por ser la primera persona que se sometió a numerosas cirugías de cambio de sexo para convertirse en Lili Ilse Elvenes. Este libro publicado en 1933, relata, a partir de los diarios y manuscritos de Lili, facilitados a Niels Hoyers antes de su fallecimiento, su historia y transición personal de una manera realista, cruda y tremendamente inspiradora. LIBRO.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of one of the most important and influential works in transgender history. Published in 1933 and edited by Niels Hoyer from the diaries and papers of Danish painter Lili Elbe, the volume chronicles Elbe's pioneering transition and experimental surgeries, making it among the earliest published first-person narratives of gender transition. Issued at a time when such subjects were rarely discussed outside medical circles, Man into Woman remains a landmark of LGBTQ+ history, modern sexology, and autobiographical literature. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1933. Publisher's original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xiii, [1], 15-288; illustrated with 18 plates. A very good copy. Binding remains sturdy and square, spine toned and sunned with moderate uneven fading to boards, minimal shelfwear. Scattered light foxing, else internally clean. Very scarce.…

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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition in English. Third edition overall, following a Copenhagen edition (Fra Mand til Kvinde, 1931) and a Dresden edition (Ein Mensch wechselt sein Geschlecht, 1932). The first edition in English has appeared at auction twice, and only once in its original binding. This is the only copy currently on the market. The previous editions are rare: OCLC records only two copies of the Copenhagen edition (Royal Danish Library and Harvard) and four copies of the German edition. The Copenhagen edition has never appeared at auction and the German edition has only appeared twice. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth boards. Endpapers foxed and toned, and some occasional light foxing throughout. The rare dust jacket with quite a bit of wear to edges, splitting to folds, and tape repair to verso. Still, a remarkable survival of a crucial piece of transgender literary history. Man into Woman is the autobiography of Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe (1882 - 1931), the Danish painter who, in 1930, became one of the first people to receive gender affirming surgery. The work, which was written by Elbe and edited by her friend Ernst Jacobson under the pseudonym Niels Hoyer, records Elbe's personal reflections on her gender identity and the story of her medical transition at Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science, a groundbreaking transition medicine clinic. Man into Woman is "the first popular full-length (auto)biographical narrative of a subject who undergoes genital transformation surgery" and one of the earliest published personal accounts of transgender life (Bloomsbury). Elbe began presenting as a woman in the 1920s, both as a model for her wife, the painter Gerda Gottlieb (1885 - 1940), and among her social circle. In 1930, Elbe became a patient of the Institute for Sexual Science, and went through a series of gender affirming surgeries over the course of the next two years. During the course of her transition, Elbe was able to legally change her name and gender and live as a woman: "That I, Lili, am vital and have a right to life, I have proved it," she wrote in her autobiography. She lived in Dresden, where she met the French art dealer Claude Lejeune, and dreamed of having children. Unfortunately, following complications from her fourth surgery, Elbe passed away in September 1931. She has since been immortalized by this autobiography, and by the extraordinary portraits painted by Gottlieb, which capture an image of Elbe as the modern woman, a symbol of independence and self-determination. Elbe's transition was also depicted in the widely acclaimed film The Danish Girl (2015), which was adapted from the 2000 novel of the same name. Man into Woman is also a crucial record of Hirschfeld's work and the blossoming trans community that existed around his clinic. In the words of Susan Stryker, "Hirschfeld was the linchpin, and his institute the hub, of the international network of transgender people and progressive medical experts who set the stage for the post-World War II transgender movement" (Transgender History, p. 39). Hirschfeld coined the term "transvestite" (a predecessor of later terms like "transsexual" and, eventually, "transgender"); published "the first book-length treatment of transgender phenomena" in 1910; and, through his Institute for Sexual Science, provided healthcare, legal resources, social support, and even employment opportunities to a blossoming community of trans people in Europe (ibid). Tragically, the Institute for Sexual Science was dismantled by the Nazis in 1933 in a series of raids, book burnings, and arrests and attacks of clinic staff; Hirschfeld was out of the country at the time and escaped arrest, but many of his records were destroyed. Elbe's biography, then, is a crucial record of trans life and community - an aspect of history that has been (and continues to be) intentionally erased by far-right governments around the world. Note: Though it is difficult to trace the early history of trans biography and memoir, the first published personal account of medical gender transition may have been Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years (1907), a semi-autobiographical account by Karl M. Baer (as "N.O. Body"), an early patient of Hirschfeld. Baer's work was followed by Jennie June's publications Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918) and The Female Impersonators (1922), which record the writer's personal experiences of gender and involvement with the Cercle Hermaphroditos, one of the earliest examples of trans community organizing. Therefore, Man into Woman might be the fourth published trans memoir. Importantly, all of these publications long predate more popular midcentury memoirs published in the wake of Christine Jorgensen's highly publicized transition in 1951, including her own Personal Autobiography (1967). Trans memoirs became much more common throughout the 1970s and beyond; any work predating World War II is notably early and is likely quite scarce. Stryker, Susan. Transgender History (2008). Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 Elbes 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 Elbes 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. This print edition has a digital companion: the Lili Elbe Digital Archive . Launched on July 6, 2019, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Magnus Hirschfelds Institute for Sexual Science (Institut fuer Sexualwissenschaft) where Lili Elbe was initially examined, the Lili Elbe Digital Archive hosts the German typescript and all four editions of this narrative published in Danish, German, and English between 1931 and 1933, with English translations of the Danish edition and the typescript. Many letters from archives and contemporaneous articles noted in this print edition may be found in the digital archive. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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 Elbes 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 Elbes 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. This print edition has a digital companion: the Lili Elbe Digital Archive . Launched on July 6, 2019, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Magnus Hirschfelds Institute for Sexual Science (Institut fuer Sexualwissenschaft) where Lili Elbe was initially examined, the Lili Elbe Digital Archive hosts the German typescript and all four editions of this narrative published in Danish, German, and English between 1931 and 1933, with English translations of the Danish edition and the typescript. Many letters from archives and contemporaneous articles noted in this print edition may be found in the digital archive. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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