Out of the ordinary : a life of gender and spiritual transitions
by Dillon, Michael, 1915-1962 (Author), Lobzang Jivaka, 1915-1962k (Author)
Summary
Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship's surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962. Full description
- Foreword / by Susan Stryker
- Editors' Note
- "In His Own Way, In His Own Time" : an Introduction to Out of the Ordinary
- Author's Introduction
- Part I: Conquest of the Body
- Birth and Origins
- The Nursery
- Schooldays
- Oxford
- War
- The Darkest of Days
- Part II: Conquest of the Mind
- Medical Student
- Resident Medical Officer
- Surgeon M.N.
- On the Haj
- Round the World
- Interlude Ashore
- Last Voyage
- Imji Getsul.