The female-impersonators Ralph Werther—Jennie June

About this eBook

Author

Werther, Ralph, 1874-

Title

The female-impersonators A sequel to the autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld; together with the life stories of androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology

Original Publication

United States: The Medico-Legal journal, 1922.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Cross-dressing -- United States -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70019

Release Date

February 11, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Female-Impersonators A sequel to the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANDROGYNE and an account of some of the author’s experiences during his six years’ career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York’s Underworld; together with the life stories of androgyne associates and an outline of his subsequently acquired knowledge of kindred phenomena of human character and psychology.
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.Introduction — Part One: The Third Sex — I. How This Book Came to Be Written. — II. The Place of the Androgyne in the Male Sex Scale. — III. Androgynes of Mythology and History. — IV. Man Is a Passional, Rather Than a Rational, Being.
5. 5.Part Two: How the Author Came to Be a Female-Impersonator — I. Reveries Suggested by My Infancy. — II. School Days. — III. An Androgyne’s Youth. — IV. I Grow into The Fairie Boy . — V. The Boy Who Never Grew to Be a Man.
6. 6.Part Three: The Fairie Boy — I. Female-Impersonation. — II. A Typical Female-Impersonation Spree. — III. The Gambler. — IV. A Stuyvesant Square Pick-up. — V. Evenings at Paresis Hall. — VI. Thoughts Suggested by the “Hermaphroditoi” in General.
7. 7.Part Four: Frank—Eunice — I. Debut as Adult Female-Impersonator. — II. The Pug Heaven. — III. A University Friendship. — IV. The Masked Ball. — V. Frank—Eunice’s Indiscretion.
8. 8.Part Five: Angelo—Phyllis — I. Angelo Angevine’s Debut as Public Female-Impersonator. — II. Jailed for Wearing Petticoats. — III. George Greenwood. [45]
9. 9.Part Six: Newspaper Accounts of Murders of Androgynes — I. Two Murder Mysteries Which, Strangely Alike in Many Ways, Baffled All Efforts to Solve. — Discovery of the Murder — A Midnight Caller — Made No Outcry — Motive Not Clear — THE MURDER OF Y — Strangled to Death — Probably an Expected Guest — II. Z Mystery Baffles Inquiry at Every Angle. — Family Sure Z Was Murdered — In High Spirits — III. College Student’s Death is Unexplained.
10. 10.Part Seven: Medical Writers on Androgynism — I. What a New York Official Physician Has to Say about Fairies. — II. What One of America’s Foremost Medical Writers Has to Say about Fairies.
11. 11.Part Eight: Androgyne Verse — Emotion [50] — Recollection [51] — Memories [52] — French Doll-Baby [53]
12. 12.INDEX

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