Woman I Was Not Born to Be: A Transsexual Journey

1. Just for a Change
2. Farm Boy
3. Drag Queen
4. A Man in the House
5. Alfred, Adieu
6. The Coed
7. Burlesque Queen
8. Miss Congeniality
9. Call Me Mrs.
10. Teacher! Teacher!
11. A Playboy Bunny
12. That Female Bunch
13. Fashion's Guru
14. Off-Broadway Baby
15. A Faceless Intruder
16. Mother's Final gift
17. The Finished Produce Index

Aleshia Brevard continues to be active in theater as an actress and director.

"...an entertaining and heartfelt journey from male to female, ostracism to acceptance, and obscurity to fame. ... Aleshia Brevard's journey is a brilliant, gutsy, and insightful look at a life simultaneously marginalized and in the spotlight." --Lambda Book Report "The Woman I Was not Born to Be is not the kind of book one really expects from an academic press: no statistics, no elaborate theoretical structure. Nor is it the story of people whom history has utterly ignored. Mocked, crucified, tortured, and jailed, yes; ignored, no. But I'm glad Temple University Press chose to publish it: in academia as in real life, a reasonably well-adjusted, kind-hearted woman who was born male is not so common." --Amy Bloom, Wilson Quarterly "Brevard's story adds an entertaining curve to the growing body of literature--academic scientific, theoretical and literary--on transgendered experience, without the self-pity or sentimentality found in many such memoirs...Written in a gossipy style reminiscent of 1950's movie-star autobiographies (which at heart, it is)." --Publishers Weekly "Aleshia Brevard's transformation from an awkward southern boy to Hollywood B-movie starlet is one of the most amazing tales I've ever read. It's filled with madcap adventures, sexual escapades, hart-breaking pain, great loves and great losses. This is a beautiful book, written with a glittering charm and humor and wisdom." --Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra Man