... Jorgensen. The front-page headline read “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty: Operations Transform Bronx Youth,” and the story told how Jor- gensen had traveled to Denmark for “a rare and complicated treatment.” The ini- tial scoop soon escalated into an international media frenzy. Reporters cast Jor- gensen...

... with a discussion of Chris- tine Jorgensen, one of the first famous transsexuals in the US, and how her fame has represent[ed] a form of freedom, [while] it also signified upon the various kinds of unfreedom that marked and continue to animate black and trans tem- poralities (142). Snorton centers his discussion...

... . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Jorgensen Christine . 1973 . A Personal Autobiography . Toronto : Bantam . Keating Shannon . 2014 . “ Peter Pan, Queer Icon .” Atlantic , December 4 . www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/peter-pan-queer-icon...

.... Through her reading of transsexuality Meyerowitz offers a history of sex itself. She argues that common cultural understandings of and attitudes toward sex, gender, and iden- tity were changed by the publicity surrounding Christine Jorgensen’s transition in 1952. Simultaneous fascination...

...- tity were changed by the publicity surrounding Christine Jorgensen’s transition in 1952. Simultaneous fascination with and anxiety about Jorgensen’s celebrity led to the cultural consensus that a common understanding of sex was necessary, and Meyerowitz suggests that a more fi xed concept of sex...

...- tity were changed by the publicity surrounding Christine Jorgensen’s transition in 1952. Simultaneous fascination with and anxiety about Jorgensen’s celebrity led to the cultural consensus that a common understanding of sex was necessary, and Meyerowitz suggests that a more fi xed concept of sex...

.... Through her reading of transsexuality Meyerowitz offers a history of sex itself. She argues that common cultural understandings of and attitudes toward sex, gender, and iden- tity were changed by the publicity surrounding Christine Jorgensen’s transition in 1952. Simultaneous fascination...

.... Through her reading of transsexuality Meyerowitz offers a history of sex itself. She argues that common cultural understandings of and attitudes toward sex, gender, and iden- tity were changed by the publicity surrounding Christine Jorgensen’s transition in 1952. Simultaneous fascination...

...- tity were changed by the publicity surrounding Christine Jorgensen’s transition in 1952. Simultaneous fascination with and anxiety about Jorgensen’s celebrity led to the cultural consensus that a common understanding of sex was necessary, and Meyerowitz suggests that a more fi xed concept of sex...

... (Temple University Press, 1994). She is currently writing a book on Christine Jorgensen and transsexuality in the United States, 1930–1970. James L. Nelson is professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knox- ville, and an affiliate of its Center for Applied and Professional Ethics. He...

... lines. In 1973 I revealed to my mother that my breasts had not developed properly. The right breast was a DD cup and the left barely fit into a training bra. I went to see the surgeon Dr. Jorgensen, and I asked that he make the large right breast the same size...

... moment with the publicity surrounding Christine Jorgensen, who in 1951 underwent sexual reassignment surgery. As C. Riley Snorton (2017: 139) points out, Though Jorgensen s was not the first media story to pivot on transgender con- cerns . . . her narrative, as it played out in the contemporary press...

... television documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafete- ria, and is working on a new experimental film, Christine in the Cutting Room, about 1950s transsexual celebrity Christine Jorgensen’s use of her own body as manipulable biomedia within the cinematic apparatus. Jerry Tartaglia...

... TRANSGENDER ACTIVISM 353 Publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon was part of a wave of change in the United States that began in the aftermath of the spectacular publicity sur- rounding Christine Jorgensen’s 1952 sex reassignment surgery in Denmark. As Joanne Meyerowitz’s work has established...

... follows the meteoric rise of the American Christine Jorgensen (1926–89) through the global afterlives and mediatic representations of sex reassignment. From Mexico and Taiwan to Japan and China, a global historiography of transtopia emerges in which each geopolitical iteration of Christine tells...

... (Bornstein, Feinberg, Jorgensen, Morris, Richards), but others are less well known. Prosser first addresses the writings of Butler, and secondarily those of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, especially the apparent equation of transgender with “queer...

... certain cultural conditions within transnational technoscientific capitalism. See Susan Stryker, “Christine Jorgensen’s Atom Bomb: Mapping the Emergence of Postmodernity through Transsexuality,” in Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Culture, and Politics, ed. E. Ann Kaplan and Susan Squier...

..., and writing a report. The speakers at this event included a panel of people identified as transvestites and transsexuals. Perhaps the highlight of the event, which drew several hundred people, was the keynote speech, in which Christine Jorgensen spoke of her own experiences in changing her...

... from hopeless reality in male transvestitism.”30 As the his- torian Joanne Meyerowitz has shown, homophiles often had mixed views on gen- der transgression. The debate in ONE sparked by the Christine Jorgensen affair was characterized by criticism of those who were undergoing or adopting some...

... of transsexualism among transsexu- als. Christine Jorgensen, who brought transsexualism to worldwide attention in 1952, explained her condition as the result of a “glandular imbalance” that was “deep-rooted in all the cells of [her] body.”15 Mid-1990s Dutch findings of neu- roanatomical...