A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
Original title: "Wie Lili zu einem richtigen Mädchen wurde: Lili Elbe: Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Identität zwischen Medialisierung, Regulierung und Subjektivierung" (How Lili became a real girl: Lili Elbe: On the Construction of Gender and Identity between Medialization, Regulation and Subjectivation).
"Interwoven into new narratives, the character »Lili Elbe« is currently experiencing a renaissance in popular culture. However, it already became a projection screen for public negotiations of gender and identity during the Weimar period.
Supposedly born as a man and surgically transformed, Elbe became a symbol of modern medicine in 1931: perfect hermaphrodite and the first technologically created woman at the same time. Through its media presence, it also figures as a prism for discourses regulating subjectivity. Sabine Meyer's transdisciplinary study takes a comprehensive look at the complex relationships behind the projection for the first time and opens up new and critical perspectives for the historiography of trans*."
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