Bibliograph

This body I wore, a memoir, Diana Goetsch

Type

Label

This body I wore, a memoir, Diana Goetsch

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This body I wore

Oclc number

1264275757

Responsibility statement

Diana Goetsch

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Prologue: stepping out -- Part one. Woman good man bad -- The admirer -- The fabric factory -- The limelight -- Stuyvesant -- Jeri -- Straight pool -- URNotAlone -- Part two. Accident -- Northport -- War is hell -- Part three. 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

Target audience

adult

Classification