This body I wore : a memoir / Diana Goetsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goetsch, Diana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goetsch, Diana.

Trans women--United States--Biography.

Trans women.

Poets, American--Biography.

Poets, American.

Gender transition--United States.

Gender transition.

Gender identity.

Transgender women.

United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself"-- Provided by publisher.

How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? Goetsch brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and '90s. Under cover of night, crossdressers risked their jobs and their safety to give expression to urges they could neither control nor understand. Here Goetsch chronicles her long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Prologue: stepping out

Woman good man bad

The admirer

The fabric factory

The limelight

Stuyvesant

Jeri

Straight pool

URNotAlone

Accident

Northport

War is hell

Isle of Staten

Femme fever

Poet-in-captivity

Revisionist history

In the cabin of the crazy one

The thousand gateless gates

Epilogue: Mother's Day.

Other Format:

Online version: Goetsch, Diana. This body I wore.

ISBN:

9780374115098

0374115095

OCLC:

1264275757