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From Female To Male:
The Life of Jack Bee Garland

Louis Sullivan

1990, Alyson Publications

178 Pages

From the Cover

"Louis Sullivan rescues from obscurity the fascinating story of a brave and compassionate soul. Jack Garland finally gets the recognition he deserves as a pioneer explorer who ventured across gender boundaries to invest his own life.  This well-researched work is an important contribution to the history of gender and sexuality in America." - Allan Berube, author of Coming Out Under Fire: Gay Men and Women in World War II.

"What Sullivan has preserved in this book is the record of the indomitable spirit of Jack Bee Garland.  Hers is a spirit that challenges us to rethink what we think we know about gender and our own history." - Joan Nestle, Lesbian Herstory Archives

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Death of Jack Bee Garland
  2. "A Woman in Male Clothing"
  3. "Girl-Boy, Man-Woman, or What-Is-It?"
  4. The Naomi's Bean Dinner
  5. Of Babies and Gamblers
  6. B. Bean Looks at Women
  7. B. Bean Looks at Men
  8. B. Bean Looks at Society and the Family
  9. In San Francisco
  10. Bean Regains Her Voice
  11. "Lieutenant Jack" in Manila
  12. Jack's Last Years
  13. Childhood
  14. Burial
  15. Epilogue

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