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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
These days, it is understood that sometimes boys will be girls; in Alfred Brevard Crenshaw's case, he wanted to be a womanAand what a woman! Born in 1937 to a genteel Tennessee family, Crenshaw knew that he was different from an early age. In his early 20s, he fled to San Francisco, where he became a female impersonator and a hit, under the name Lee Shaw, at Finocchio's, the world-famous nightclub featuring top-line drag entertainment. But by the early 1960s, simply dressing up wasn't enough; Shaw wanted to undergo surgery to become a woman. His desire was so great that, even before he underwent the brand-new technique of transsexual surgery, he castrated himself (with the help of a friend) in his own kitchen to shut down his body's production of testosterone. After seeking safer, medical solutions to his gender dysphoria (namely, 11 hours of surgery), Lee emerged as Aleshia BrevardAa well-built knockout. Pursuing a career in entertainment, Aleshia became a burlesque queen, a Playboy bunny and a B-movie star, playing the lead against Don Knotts in The Love God. Brevard's story adds an entertaining curve to the growing body of literatureAacademic, scientific, theoretical and literaryAon transgender experience, without the self-pity or sentimentality found in many such memoirs. 17 photos. (Mar. 26) Forecast: Written in a gossipy style reminiscent of 1950s movie-star autobiographies (which, at heart, it is), this book could break out beyond the publisher's more usual academic readership to lovers of celebrity tell-alls and B-movies.
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From Library Journal
Best known for her roles in B movies (one of her more memorable was as a Pussycat in Don Knotts's The Love God) and her work as a drag-show entertainer, Brevard (n? Alfred Crenshaw) never felt at home in her body. In her autobiography, she relates the story of her remarkable life in sometimes funny, sometimes painful detail, from her gender-reassignment surgery and its aftermath to her stereotypically feminine employment (she was a Playboy Bunny for a time) and her three unhappy marriages. Her mother, Mozelle, and her best friend, Stormy (who also struggles with transgender issues), are staunch supporters thoughout her quest to become the "woman she was not born to be." Brevard's determination to make the life she craves is powerful, regardless of her gender, but the writing is uneven; additionally, the chatty, friendly tone she uses may come across as exaggeratedly intimate to readers. A better-written autobiography on the same theme is Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw (LJ 5/15/94). Kimberly L. Clarke, Univ. of Minnesota Lib., Minneapolis
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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These days, it is understood that sometimes boys will be girls; in Alfred Brevard Crenshaw's case, he wanted to be a womanAand what a woman! Born in 1937 to a genteel Tennessee family, Crenshaw knew that he was different from an early age. In his early 20s, he fled to San Francisco, where he became a female impersonator and a hit, under the name Lee Shaw, at Finocchio's, the world-famous nightclub featuring top-line drag entertainment. But by the early 1960s, simply dressing up wasn't enough; Shaw wanted to undergo surgery to become a woman. His desire was so great that, even before he underwent the brand-new technique of transsexual surgery, he castrated himself (with the help of a friend) in his own kitchen to shut down his body's production of testosterone. After seeking safer, medical solutions to his gender dysphoria (namely, 11 hours of surgery), Lee emerged as Aleshia BrevardAa well-built knockout. Pursuing a career in entertainment, Aleshia became a burlesque queen, a Playboy bunny and a B-movie star, playing the lead against Don Knotts in The Love God. Brevard's story adds an entertaining curve to the growing body of literatureAacademic, scientific, theoretical and literaryAon transgender experience, without the self-pity or sentimentality found in many such memoirs. 17 photos. (Mar. 26) Forecast: Written in a gossipy style reminiscent of 1950s movie-star autobiographies (which, at heart, it is), this book could break out beyond the publisher's more usual academic readership to lovers of celebrity tell-alls and B-movies.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Best known for her roles in B movies (one of her more memorable was as a Pussycat in Don Knotts's The Love God) and her work as a drag-show entertainer, Brevard (n? Alfred Crenshaw) never felt at home in her body. In her autobiography, she relates the story of her remarkable life in sometimes funny, sometimes painful detail, from her gender-reassignment surgery and its aftermath to her stereotypically feminine employment (she was a Playboy Bunny for a time) and her three unhappy marriages. Her mother, Mozelle, and her best friend, Stormy (who also struggles with transgender issues), are staunch supporters thoughout her quest to become the "woman she was not born to be." Brevard's determination to make the life she craves is powerful, regardless of her gender, but the writing is uneven; additionally, the chatty, friendly tone she uses may come across as exaggeratedly intimate to readers. A better-written autobiography on the same theme is Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw (LJ 5/15/94). Kimberly L. Clarke, Univ. of Minnesota Lib., Minneapolis
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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