Herring is emerging as one of the most important voices in queer American studies. His elegant, lucid prose dynamically introduces a fascinating but neglected work of autobiography, giving us a unique window onto the bewildering dynamics that fueled the process of coming to terms with American sexual modernity.
— Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
Scott Herring's strategically brilliant introduction to this new edition of Autobiography of an Adrogyne provides a valuable measure of the advances made in sexuality studies in recent decades. He shows particular brilliance in his analysis of the work as a remarkable kind of literary hybrid, mixing elements of popular formula fiction with avant-garde fields of nascent psychologies and sociologies of sex at the end of the nineteenth century.
— Michael Moon, Emory University
Herring is emerging as one of the most important voices in queer American studies. His elegant, lucid prose dynamically introduces a fascinating but neglected work of autobiography, giving us a unique window onto the bewildering dynamics that fueled the process of coming to terms with American sexual modernity.
— Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
Scott Herring's strategically brilliant introduction to this new edition of Autobiography of an Adrogyne provides a valuable measure of the advances made in sexuality studies in recent decades. He shows particular brilliance in his analysis of the work as a remarkable kind of literary hybrid, mixing elements of popular formula fiction with avant-garde fields of nascent psychologies and sociologies of sex at the end of the nineteenth century.
— Michael Moon, Emory University