This body I wore a memoir

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 198...

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Main Author: Goetsch, Diana (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Edition: First edition.
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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.