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Conundrum | Jan Morris
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The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a mans man. Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman. Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morriss hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.
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A deeply personal and beautifully written memoir about the late journalist and travel writer Jan Morris's experience as a transsexual (her preferred term) woman #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4y
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For my bday coming up-I treated myself to a subscription to Slightly Foxed. It‘s a delightful publishing company that puts out a quarterly journal + old classics. I came across an edition they did of my favorite, 84 Charing Cross Road. Their podcast is also so charming! It‘s makes me want to grab a cup of tea before settling in hear their lovely voices talk about books. It‘s an Anglophile‘s dream. I‘m thrilled with my first installment

DivineDiana It does look thrilling to me as well! ❤️ 6y
HardcoverHearts @DivineDiana You get me! 😉 6y
LeahBergen I‘m a longtime subscriber and LOVE them so much (and I have that edition of 84 Charing Cross Road, too ❤️❤️). 6y
HardcoverHearts @LeahBergen It‘s like we are sisters!! Have you listened to the podcast?! It‘s as perfect as you would expect. I could listen to them all day. 6y
LeahBergen I could listen to that podcast ALL DAY LONG. 😍😍 6y
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Jan (formerly Jim) Morris describing what her life was like as a woman after her gender reassignment surgery in 1972, quoted in "In The Darkroom."

This was a whole genre of "Rebirth" literature I was not familiar with.

Zelma Wtf? That seems like a list of stereotypes that were adopted. and a child-like vision? 😡 (edited) 7y
Tamarity Estrogen is a b****.. 7y
KathyWheeler This honestly sounds like, in preparation, for gender reassignment surgery, he found a book that described what women are "supposed" to be like, and, once the surgery was done, she adopted every single stereotype in the book. (edited) 7y
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