Clickety Clack My Bipolar Express

Summary: Clickety Clack is Joy McDiarmid's self- portrait of bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable for a woman coming of age in the 1950s. Amidst gender and sexuality confusion, this Winnipeg woman began to look for romantic love and sexual fulfillment: sometimes wanting to dress as a man, sometimes as a woman, sometimes attracted to men, sometimes to women. In candid accounts of this paralysing complexity, which McDiarmid tried valiantly to understand and express despite oppressive social stigmas and parental strictures, her insights about human sexuality and.

Record details

ISBN: 9781926577227 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1926577221 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (238 p.)
Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Cover; About this Book; Testimonials; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Author's Note; Foreword by Dr. Frances W. Edye, M.D.; Beginnings; Chapter 1: Birth Day; Chapter 2: Shadows on the Walls; Chapter 3: Hauntings; Chapter 4: The Queen is Coming; Chapter 5: Gender Identity; Chapter 6: Sexual Identity; Chapter 7: Electroconvulsive Therapy; Chapter 8: Empty Mirror; Chapter 9: Heydays; Chapter 10: Living on the Edge; Chapter 11: Memoirs of Madness; Chapter 12: Demons in the Dungeon; Chapter 13: Dear Josephine; Chapter 14: Hospital Nightmares; Chapter 15: It's a Family Thing.

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