By Jean Genet
ISBN-10: 0802130879
ISBN-13: 9780802130877
Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of global conflict II unfolds among the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed within the Resistance through the liberation of Paris, and his perverse appeal to the collaborator Riton. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a depressing meditation at the reflect photos of affection and hate, intercourse and demise.
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Q: Yet you grew up in a time when there was extensive media coverage of celebrity transsexuals like Chris Jorgensen and Renée Richards. You didn’t make the connection? No, I never did. Partly because while I was in high school, college, and medical school, I never read the newspaper. I never watched TV. I was very intense about my studies. I knew a lot about science, but I didn’t know a lot about other stuff. I was a typical science geek, and I really had no other interests. It wasn’t until I came here [to Stanford] that I started reading the newspaper.
I wasn’t trying to cause any trouble. qxp 1/14/05 10:14 AM Page 23 THE HANDS OF GOD 23 trying, really pissed this teacher off. ” Well, I didn’t want to do what they were doing. That was boring. So that was what it was like growing up, but then you reach puberty. That got really weird, you know, because then you start to get breasts. I really didn’t want them, and they just seemed like foreign objects. I wore really loose T-shirts just like I’m doing now so that they wouldn’t show. I never did the binding thing, I think because I wasn’t that big-chested, and maybe if I had been I would have.
To avert a diplomatic crisis, King Louis XV of France sent a letter to George III of England, stating that d’Éon was a woman. Rather than calming public doubts, this letter created an even greater frenzy. Lawsuits were filed by losing bettors, doctors were called in to testify, and d’Éon was officially declared a woman by an English court. ” In exchange for d’Éon’s agreement to live quietly as a woman, the French government granted the chevalier a generous pension. Although agreeing to abandon military dress, d’Éon requested permission to continue wearing the Cross of St.
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